Music To Play In The Dark Vol. 2 - Coil (2000) Full album.

Coil return with more moon musick. This is volume 2 of a hopefully neverending series begun last year with the well received volume 1. Here Coil are the trio of Balance, Sleazy and Thighpaulsandra, with the addition of some vocals by frequent collaborator Rose McDowall. “Something“ welcomes us back to the moonlit night with swooshes of digital air and Balance’s deadpan recital of the title back and forth across the stereo field. “Tiny Golden Books“ churns through bits of digital sound and digitzed vocals during a lengthy bass throb fed journey. “Ether“ sets Balance’s effected vocals to Thighpaulsandra’s melancholy drenched piano until he turns his mind off in a slow motion spoken wind down. “Paranoid Inlay“ is an unsettling mix of digital glitch bits with an almost too cute synth melody and Balance eerily declaring “serenity is a problem“. “An Emergency“ is a brief, creaky interlude with Rose angelically singing the question “