Coil- New Backwards

Two CD set. The New Backwards was conceived by Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson in 2007, revisiting stray tracks which hadn’t seemed to gel with the material he had chosen for the more somber Ape of Naples from 2005, Coil’s initial posthumous release, a sort of requiem and a kiss-goodbye to his then recently deceased partner John Balance. Significantly different to it’s sister release, this album collects the brilliantly chaotic and outrageously rhythmic material from the original sessions for the album that was begun as early as 1993 and had originally been conceptualized as the follow-up to Love’s Secret Domain. These songs are as diverse and wild as the places they originated from, partly infamously spawned in Sharon Tate’s former home in the Hollywood Hills, the Nine Inch Nails home base in New Orleans and London’s Swanyard, remixed and restructured with the help of long-term friend Danny Hyde in Thailand, this collection has it’s own unique flow and an atmosphere not found on any other Coil release.

Tracklist:

1. Careful What You Wish For
2. Ayor
3. Nature Is a Language
4. Fire of the Green Dragon
5. Algerian Basses
6. Copacaballa
7. Paint Me as a Dead Soul
8. Backwards
9. Princess Margaret’s Man in the d’Jamalfna
10. Ayor Live Pornmod (It’s In My Blood) – Live Geoff
11. Ambient Basses Hijack Mix 1
12. Wur Click Wur Ruff 1994
13. Backwards Dist Vox
14. Drone Geff Master
15. Carny Master
16. Drone Skellies
17. Choir Drone Skellies
18. Backwards Live WIP – Fixed Softer Backwards