Musick To Play In The Dark² Coil SKU: 29.00 31.00 £29.00 - £31.00 £29.00 - £31.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dais Released Date: 8th April 2022 Buying Format: 2LP 2LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option2LP2LP Coloured VinylClear Musick To Play In The Dark² quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info After leaving London in 1999 for the sleepy seaside retiree town of Weston-super-Mare, Coil co-founders John Balance and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson set up shop in a palatial eight-bedroom estate to pursue the outer reaches of the group’s heightening cabalistic chemistry. Among the staggering string of late-era masterpieces they produced is lunar opus Musick To Play In The Dark, widely hailed as an artistic zenith upon its release. The sessions that birthed it were in fact so fruitful that a second LP took shape during the creation of the first one. Aided by the recent addition of Welsh multi-instrumentalist engineer Thighpaulsandra, Coil mined further into the recesses of surrealist eldritch electronica Balance termed “moon music” – post-industrial spellcasting at the axis of narcotic and nocturnal energies. Musick To Play In The Dark² spans a full witching hour of bad acid sound design, synthesizer voyaging, opiated balladry, Luciferian glitch, and subliminal hymnals, alternately ominous, oracular, and absurd. Scottish gothic icon Rose McDowall guests on vocals for two tracks but otherwise the album is a hermetic affair, tapping into the group’s limitless insular synergy. Opener “Something” is stark and incantational, a spoken word experiment for windswept voids. “Tiny Golden Books” unspools an aerial whirlpool of cosmic synth, both whispery and widescreen. “Ether” is an exercise in funeral procession piano and intoxicated wordplay (“It’s either ether or the other”), while “Where Are You?” and “Batwings – A Liminal Hymn” lurk like liturgical murmurings heard on one’s death bed, framed in granular FX and flickering candlelight. As a whole the collection skews more muted and remote than its predecessor, as if having grown accustomed to the nether regions of these darkening seances. But music box hallucination “Paranoid Inlay” captures the group’s oblique comedic side, always glimmering beneath: over a warped, wobbly beat Balance intones an opaque narrative of serenity, Saint Peter, and suicidal vegetables, accompanied by spiraling harpsichord and stuttering squelches of electronics. “It seems concussion suits you,” he repeats twice, like a macabre pickup line, before dictating a dear diary entry about risks and failures, finally concluding with as close to a self-portrait as Coil ever came: “On a clear day I can see forever / that the underworld is my oyster.” ● First vinyl reissue, available on LP for the first time in 20 years ● Completely remastered audio and restored artwork ● Side D lunar vinyl etching art Artist Coil Genre Electronica Label Dais Buying Options 2LP , 2LP Coloured Vinyl Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Are You Shivering? Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night Red Queen Broccoli Strange Birds The Dreamer is Still Asleep Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Coil and more from Electronica View Product Quick View Coil Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil Electronica | Dais | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th August 2022 £33.00 - £34.00 Select options Coil Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil £33.00 - £34.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dais Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th August 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Coil Musick to Play In The Dark Electronica | Dais | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th November 2020 £26.00 - £29.00 Select options Coil Musick to Play In The Dark £26.00 - £29.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dais Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th November 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Coil Theme From The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex Electronica | Musique Pour La Danse | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th June 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Coil Theme From The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Musique Pour La Danse SKU: MPD018 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Burial Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above Electronica | XL Recordings | 12", Single Released 9th February 2024 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Burial Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above £12.00 Genre: Electronica Label: XL Recordings SKU: XL1401T Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 9th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Claptone Fantast Electronica | Different Recordings | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th June 2018 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Claptone Fantast £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Different Recordings SKU: DIFU360DLP Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Merzbow Venereology – Remaster/Reissue Electronica | Relapse | 2LP Released 1st March 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Merzbow Venereology – Remaster/Reissue £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Relapse SKU: RR669911 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Roger Eno & Brian Eno Luminous Electronica | Deutsche Grammophon | 12", 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released 14th August 2020 £26.00 Select options Roger Eno & Brian Eno Luminous £26.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Deutsche Grammophon Formats: 12", 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 14th August 2020 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Ty Featuring Roots Manuva Oh U Want More? 12″ Single Electronica | Big Dada | 12", Single Released 15th June 2020 £7.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ty Featuring Roots Manuva Oh U Want More? 12″ Single £7.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Big Dada SKU: nn205918 Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 15th June 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View JARV IS House Music All Night Long Electronica | Rough Trade | 12", Single Released 27th March 2020 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders JARV IS House Music All Night Long £8.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Rough Trade SKU: RT0124T Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 27th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Royksopp Senior Electronica | Dog Triumph | 1LP Released 7th December 2018 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Royksopp Senior £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dog Triumph SKU: DOG22 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dave Clarke Archive One – Deluxe Boxset Electronica | Skint | 6LP, Box Set Released 5th April 2024 £115.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Clarke Archive One – Deluxe Boxset £115.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Skint SKU: 4050538903638 Formats: 6LP, Box Set Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Future Sound Of London, The Environment 7.003 Electronica | FSOL DIGITAL | 1LP Released 24th November 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Future Sound Of London, The Environment 7.003 £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: FSOL DIGITAL SKU: LPTOT89 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Hexadic III Electronica | Drag City | 1LP Released 23rd February 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Hexadic III £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Drag City SKU: DC695 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
View Product Quick View Coil Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil Electronica | Dais | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th August 2022 £33.00 - £34.00 Select options Coil Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil £33.00 - £34.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dais Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th August 2022 Read More Select options
View Product Quick View Coil Musick to Play In The Dark Electronica | Dais | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th November 2020 £26.00 - £29.00 Select options Coil Musick to Play In The Dark £26.00 - £29.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dais Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th November 2020 Read More Select options
View Product Quick View Coil Theme From The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex Electronica | Musique Pour La Danse | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th June 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Coil Theme From The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Musique Pour La Danse SKU: MPD018 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Burial Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above Electronica | XL Recordings | 12", Single Released 9th February 2024 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Burial Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above £12.00 Genre: Electronica Label: XL Recordings SKU: XL1401T Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 9th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Claptone Fantast Electronica | Different Recordings | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th June 2018 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Claptone Fantast £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Different Recordings SKU: DIFU360DLP Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Merzbow Venereology – Remaster/Reissue Electronica | Relapse | 2LP Released 1st March 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Merzbow Venereology – Remaster/Reissue £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Relapse SKU: RR669911 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Roger Eno & Brian Eno Luminous Electronica | Deutsche Grammophon | 12", 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released 14th August 2020 £26.00 Select options Roger Eno & Brian Eno Luminous £26.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Deutsche Grammophon Formats: 12", 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 14th August 2020 Read More Select options
Nearly New View Product Quick View Ty Featuring Roots Manuva Oh U Want More? 12″ Single Electronica | Big Dada | 12", Single Released 15th June 2020 £7.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ty Featuring Roots Manuva Oh U Want More? 12″ Single £7.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Big Dada SKU: nn205918 Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 15th June 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket
View Product Quick View JARV IS House Music All Night Long Electronica | Rough Trade | 12", Single Released 27th March 2020 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders JARV IS House Music All Night Long £8.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Rough Trade SKU: RT0124T Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 27th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Royksopp Senior Electronica | Dog Triumph | 1LP Released 7th December 2018 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Royksopp Senior £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dog Triumph SKU: DOG22 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Dave Clarke Archive One – Deluxe Boxset Electronica | Skint | 6LP, Box Set Released 5th April 2024 £115.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Clarke Archive One – Deluxe Boxset £115.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Skint SKU: 4050538903638 Formats: 6LP, Box Set Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Future Sound Of London, The Environment 7.003 Electronica | FSOL DIGITAL | 1LP Released 24th November 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Future Sound Of London, The Environment 7.003 £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: FSOL DIGITAL SKU: LPTOT89 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Various Artists Hexadic III Electronica | Drag City | 1LP Released 23rd February 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Hexadic III £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Drag City SKU: DC695 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders