Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark2 - Cloudy PurpleAfter 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 Is To Play In The Dark, widely hailed as an artistic zenith upon it's release. The sessions

There's a lot of playing around

We assembled a stellar team of forty voices

" says Tony Donson

The whole thing with all the necessary strictness in reproducing the music

and brass instruments

1948/b&w/116 min/NR/fullscreen

While Chief Superintendent Anderson puts pressure on DI Helen Morton to close the case

the album includes the tour de force anthem "Gear Jammer"

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The deliberately open spaces and accented beats influenced in large part by the exploratory rhythms of the hip-hop he has loved since his teens