Tune of the Week: Coil LSD

Time has served the legacy of Coil well. They were expert sound designers as well as queer Dark Magick masters. “Teenage Lightning” serves as the quasi theme song to their 1991 masterpiece “Love’s Secret Domain”. Not only is this a fantastic industrial-era record, but one of the best psychedelic full lengths of all time. Unlike a lot of contemporary recordings, LSD transends rave culture trappings and achieves something truly cohesive and timeless.

Both members, John Balance and Peter Christopherson, are now dead. The fate of their recordings seems to be in indefinite limbo. This is bad, in that any further reissuing of their work will be dubious at best. This is also kind of good, in that a large chunk of it is now available on archive.org for free. Coil is dead. Long live Coil!