[kj] TG Wreckers/Coil

Alex Smith vassifer at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 18 14:53:05 EDT 2005


Cheers, Mark. I'd had SCATOLOGY for an age, just because of the "Tainted Love" cover, but had never really given the rest of the album -- which is insidiously creepy -- that much of  a thorough listen until recently, prompting me towards other stuff like HORSE ROTORVATOR etc.  Lemme tell you, though, with the exception of one or two shops, COIL stuff is wildly hard to find (not counting the `Net as a resource, of course....I'm one of those people who like to hunt for discs in shops as opposed to merely ordering stuff online).

The one band of the TG axis I've never really heard (apart from one track, really) is Psychic TV. Which album would be a good starting place?

Cheers,
Alex in NYC




-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar at gmail.com>
Sent: Apr 18, 2005 1:18 PM
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Subject: Re: [kj] TG Wreckers/Coil

On 4/10/05, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Who here is a Coil fan?

I am...

They are the most consistently artful and inventive of the TG
offshoots.  PTV has some genuinely amazing stuff, alongside some
terrible wankery.  Chris and Cosey have taken a fairly similar
approach, for the most part, over the past 25 years.  It's all
well-crafted in a slithery, European, mainly rhythmic sort of way, but
not a whole lot of motion forwards, or sideways for that matter.  Coil
are well worth checking out.  I'd suggest Black Light District if you
can find it, or the Moon's Milk compilation of their 4
Solstice/Equinox EPs.  Most of their output is "between pressings" at
the moment -- with the end of World Serpent Distribution, and due to
the limited runs that sometimes were a challenge to get even for the
devoted.  We'll see what Sleazy does now, after Balance's death.

--Mark
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