Monday, October 5, 2009

COIL "Love's Secret Domain"


Surpassing Beatle's L.S.D. for sure, this legendary COIL album is brilliantly haunting. By hearing this record, you can recognize how their self-induced madness aims [at the listener] are achieved.
It's an astonishing collection of despair-flavoured tracks, that only make the listener fall more deep into COIL's audible abyss.
This album contains 13 tracks:
  1. "Disco Hospital" – 2:18
  2. "Teenage Lightning 1" – 1:49
  3. "Things Happen" – 4:22
  4. "The Snow" – 6:41
  5. "Dark River" – 6:27
  6. "Where Even the Darkness Is Something to See" – 3:05
  7. "Teenage Lightning 2" – 5:09
  8. "Windowpane" – 6:11
  9. "Further Back and Faster" – 7:55
  10. "Titan Arch" – 5:02
  11. "Chaostrophy" – 5:37
  12. "Lorca Not Orca" – 2:04
  13. "Love's Secret Domain" – 3:52
The ones I prefer are: "Chaostrophy", "Dark River", "Love's Secret Domain" and also "Windowpane".
This is for certain a must have for any COIL or industrial / experimental eelctronic music fan.
The cover work seems to look like an abandoned door carved with awkward drawings, being a forbidden entrance to a social taboo path.
Comparing this one to other COIL records, I don't think it's the one with the darker mood.
Released in 1991 (although it was recorded during January 1988 to October 1990) its lenght is 60 minutes and 34 seconds. Pierro Scaruffi, an Italian-American culturan historian, rated it 6 out pf 10; All Music rated with 4.5 out of 5 stars. I'd rate it as 7 out of 10 though.
Get the album here.

Next is "Dark River"'s videoclip:

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