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Among the staggering string of late-era masterpieces they produced is lunar opus \u003ci\u003eMusick To Play In The Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAided 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. \u003ci\u003eMusick To Play In The Dark² \u003c\/i\u003espans 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpener “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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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. 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Crafted by the distilled duo of Thighpaulsandra and John Balance, the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural, channeling the spirit of levitational minimalism pioneered by La Monte Young. Touted as the first part in \"a continually mutating series of circulating musickal compositions” upon its initial release in 2000, the album remains a compelling case study in Coil’s exceptional capacity for mutation and extremes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theatrical introductory monologue delivered by Thighpaulsandra’s mother – a career opera singer, in her 80’s at the time of recording – sets the stage for a grandiose ascension. Written by Balance, the text is declamatory but dreamlike, refracted through megaphone echo: “Return the book of knowledge \/ Return the marble index \/ File under \"Paradox\" \/ The forest is a college, each tree a university.” As her voice fades, the lulling synthetic infinity deepens, congealing into transient crests of volume and haze, like slow-motion surf misting in moonlight. Thighpaulsandra describes their aesthetic intention as a “bliss out,” static but shape-shifting, an amniotic drift towards an eternal vanishing point. 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The line-up for these sessions were John Balance, Peter \"Sleazy\" Christopherson, Drew McDowall, and William Breeze. Recorded primarily at their home studio in Chiswick, London on the eve of a permanent relocation to the small seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare, the collection has long loomed as a pivotal and pinnacle work in the group's discography, but has never been officially reissued, or repressed on vinyl. Time has only ripened its tapestry of regal strangeness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArranged sequentially in tribute to the equinoxes and solstices, \u003ci\u003eMoon's Milk\u003c\/i\u003e captures Coil at a revelatory crossroads, leaning deeper into improvisation, spontaneity, and sound design. \"Moon's Milk or Under an Unquiet Skull\" initiates the proceedings on Spring Equinox, a two-part netherworld organ séance woven from vocal drones, cathedral keys, seasick strings, and opiated undertow. 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Opener \"A White Rainbow\" stirs strings, layered choral vocals, and shivering rhythm into an imploding burial hymn. \"North\" oscillates bleakly, a ghost in the machine murmuring opaque prophecy (\"This black dog has no owner \/ This black dog has no odour\"), while \"Magnetic North\" is its inverse, a guided meditation of gently flickering software and surreal chakra poetics (\"Red rose filling the skull \/ Yellow cube in the lower pelvis \/ Silver moon crescent below the navel\"). The suite fades to grey with a traditional English carol (\"Christmas Is Now Drawing Near\"), rendered like an executioner's song by Rose McDowall’s doomed, beautiful voice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dais box set includes the entirety of the rare Moon's Milk Bonus Disc CD-R \/ 2019 Threshold Archives Copal CD, which includes three collaborations with Thighpaulsandra. This material is as rich and intoxicating as the previous four phases, ranging from electro-acoustic singing bowl rituals (\"Copal\") to dissonant electronic recitations of visionary Angus MacLise poetry (\"The Coppice Meat\") to ominous classical melancholia (\"Bankside\"). Once again, Coil confirm the vastness of their confounding, infinite alchemy, explored and refined across decades of experimentation – both sonic and bodily. 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