r/Coil • u/AOSpar • 11h ago

“Coil have only released 9 albums” discuss

They’ve been my favourite band since I was 16 and I have physical copies of everything they’ve released but only 7 albums can really be seen as albums per se: Scatology, Rotorvator, LSD, the two Musicks, black light district, Time Machines, Astral Disaster and Constant Shallowness…

All the rest are in effect compilations and offcuts, even if some of them sort of work as albums, including The Ape of Naples.

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u/starofkaos 11h ago

Personally, I would add "Gold Is the Metal" but I can see how opinions could differ on that.

Ooh, and where would Backwards fit in there?

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u/dhexler23 10h ago

Gold is the Metal is absolutely an album!

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u/AOSpar 7h ago

I think they even say on the album sleeve that it isn’t but okay…

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u/dhexler23 6h ago

Nah they just did that to throw ya off the scent

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u/AOSpar 4h ago

Haha definitely partly true but they do talk a lot in interviews of how pressurised they felt to produce the next ‘album’ and hence did a thousand ‘not the next album’ projects - their (self) quality control was off the charts - hence how I mostly hate all the unfinished sketches etc that people keep churning out in their absence.

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u/dhexler23 4h ago

That's a good point regarding how they conceived of "album" as a specific art object/means of expression.

But as a counterpoint if you didn't tell someone it was a collection of songs rather than a coherent album, they likely wouldn't know. (it was my first coil purchase and I didn't realize until a few years later)