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Musick to Play in the Dark [Limited Edition]

Coil | Format: Audio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (12 May 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Limited Edition
  • Label: Trisol
  • ASIN: B00000JSU3
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 305,945 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars They will never believe you 8 Aug 2010
By Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
After the hurdy gurdy world the album takes shape with the wile of a high end modern art splash of well aimed brickbats aiming to create internal bruising. This is not an album for everyone. Sometimes it works and then others its just annoying. I findit depends on my mood.

An album where initially Coil implode into spiral shaped rhythnmic pulses. Analogue squrims fire across the room, the music shifts to internal rythmns of synthetic sound building to crescendo's, then subsiding into calming waters. Experimentation drawing on the middle european 70's rather than the rediscovered lysergic times of the early 90's

When I played it on a flat monotone system the depth and scale was lost. I can understand the one star reviews. This needs earphones or something expensive to unwrap the music otherwise it blurs in a splodge.

Out of the subsconscious trawl Jhon skims into the mirror of self construction. Identity is the crisis and shatters with the aplomb of reflection in Red Queen.Not one for the squeamish or those who remain unreflected as the music bounces into jazz piano flickering over a lumbering beat.

Monte Cazazza's childhood references arise in Brocolli, the hidden adult commands encoded as messages tumbling out when lysergia or therapy brings out the mire and debris of the past. Opening as a lullabye it drifts back to a safer more brutal and virulent version of fairyland where the outcome is already pre-written by the adult. The link back to LSD as the inner journey illuminates with flourescent torches the building blocks of childhood carried as dead weights into the adult world.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars A few things you should know about 'Musick to Play in the Dark 1' 21 Dec 2009
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This album is about willing immersion in the strange...wherever that may lead.

One piece, 'Red Queen', is a challenge to the listener who has taken revolutionary art and "absorbed it, neutralised it, made it safe" (like the 'hipster' degenerates who have 'assimilated' black metal by making it ironic and therefore sterile).

What is the alternative? Shakespeare wrote: "They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."

That is precisely what Coil advocate here, particularly on the last track 'The Dreamer is Still Asleep', which describes how the dreamer invents new landscapes. Although the dream journey is a dark one ("we forget the space between people and things is empty"), its tragic geometry gives depth to the blood of waking life. So please be silent and let dreamers continue to dream...otherwise the universe may cease to exist.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars dark bliss 27 April 2004
By D. Kerr
Format:Audio CD
This album is a must have in the Coil catalogue. Unique in the fact thatthis album works on both a song based level, and that of anelectro-acoustical soundworld, melding both into these unique pieces ofmusic. It may be 'music to play in the dark', but it certainly sheds newlight on a rejuvinated Coil, and volume 2 consolidates this fact as well.Buy it and succomb to it's serenity.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly good 11 April 2002
By W. G. Hardy VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
I could say quite a lot about Coil, and this album in particular - but I'll keep this as short as possible.
This is an astonishingly good album, and I'm wondering what's stopping me from saying that it's their best of all, because it pretty much is.

I read somewhere that this album was also an experiment by Messers Balance and Christopherson in sleep-deprivation. After several days of not sleeping, they piled into the studio and began the process of recording this. Perhaps that's what shines through and makes this memorable. Perhaps it's their change from sun-music to moon-music.

I'm not a huge fan of anything with vocals/lyrics, but I'm more than happy to make an exception for this and even sometimes find myself wailing along in my own off-key way.

Deep, dark, haunting, melodic, hypnotic. Throw as many euphamisms and adjectives at it as you want, the proof is in the listening.

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best album ever by the UK's best group? 4 Jan 2002
By D. C. Bell
Format:Audio CD
Relief and vindication for the many people who have bought the bewildering slew of releases Coil have put out since 'Stolen & Contaminated Songs', 'Musick To Play In The Dark 1' is a genuine work of genius, coherent and stunning from start to finish. Brooding and as thick and heavy as blood throughout, the highlights include their dissection of the media cult of celebrity, 'Red Queen' ("Is it more real, does it make it more yours, now that you've been recorded as having said it?") and the classic 'Broccoli', an elegiac reminiscence on childhood as institutionalisation ("Remember to say 'thank you'. . . eat your greens, especially broccoli"). This is the first truly all killer, no filler, song-based Coil album since 'Love's Secret Domain', the ideal entry point for newcomers and a must for anybody who's ever had an interest in Coil's world or, indeed, innovative music(k) and genuinely moving songwriting.
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8 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Moon Musick is Amazing 13 Oct 2000
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Originaly releasd as only 2000 copies,Musick Vol 1,is the orginal and the best.The album start`s off with `Are You Shivering?`now one of my favourite Coil song`s.With it`s dark lyric`s fitting the musick perfectly,the stuttering remind`s me of Butthole Surfer`s `hurdy gurdy man`.A classic track.Another is the disturbing but utterly bizzare track `Brocolli`,yet another amazing song.Most of the track`s have crackly sound`s that add to the feeling and quirkyness of the album.You can now purchase this rare and classic album now.What are you waiting for..This album is just too good!
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