Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark² (Vol 2) (2000/2022)
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark² (Vol 2) (2000/2022)
FLAC (Tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Official Digital Download | Time: 57:00
Experimental, Ambient | Remastered | Dais, dais184 | ~ 586 Mb
FLAC (Tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Official Digital Download | Time: 57:00
Experimental, Ambient | Remastered | Dais, dais184 | ~ 586 Mb
Two types of records usually have the highest potential for embarrassment: "comedy" records and "scary" records. Unlike an awful pub rock mistake or a tuneless ambient workout, there seems to be nothing more obnoxious than listening to a record that tries – and fails – to be either funny or frightening. Coil's Musick to Play in the Dark 2 takes the latter stab into forbidding, blood-velvet territory and consistently bungles it up. "Ether" ends with a magnificently processed, sincerely unsettling chant, but it takes almost 11 minutes of "cats + piano" melodies to get there. Elsewhere, opener "Something" takes a deeply effective, goth Gaia heartbeat and polishes it with cartoonish "menacing" swooshes and sirens that probably could be found on a two-buck "Boo! Halloween Hits!" supermarket CD. The sincerity of Coil should not be undervalued – as work here and in the past can easily attest to – it's the failure to harmonize it with a minimalist instinct that gets in the way. Because no matter how much somebody tries to tell you a joke or scare you, only the gifted can do it without sounding like a moron.by Dean Carlson
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark² (Vol 2) (2000/2022):
Tracklist:
01. Something (5:03)
02. Tiny Golden Books (12:20)
03. Ether (11:32)
04. Paranoid Inlay (7:17)
05. An Emergency (1:18)
06. Where Are You (7:53)
07. Batwings (11:36)
foobar2000 1.6.10 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-05-01 10:37:43
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Analyzed: Coil / Musick to Play in the Dark Vol 2
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 -0.30 dB -19.43 dB 5:03 01-Something
DR9 -0.30 dB -13.73 dB 12:20 02-Tiny Golden Books
DR14 -0.30 dB -17.85 dB 11:32 03-Ether
DR13 -0.30 dB -16.05 dB 7:17 04-Paranoid Inlay
DR10 -5.40 dB -19.17 dB 1:18 05-An Emergency
DR14 -0.30 dB -17.04 dB 7:53 06-Where Are You
DR11 -0.71 dB -14.75 dB 11:36 07-Batwings
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Number of tracks: 7
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1407 kbps
Codec: FLAC
log date: 2022-05-01 10:37:43
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Analyzed: Coil / Musick to Play in the Dark Vol 2
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 -0.30 dB -19.43 dB 5:03 01-Something
DR9 -0.30 dB -13.73 dB 12:20 02-Tiny Golden Books
DR14 -0.30 dB -17.85 dB 11:32 03-Ether
DR13 -0.30 dB -16.05 dB 7:17 04-Paranoid Inlay
DR10 -5.40 dB -19.17 dB 1:18 05-An Emergency
DR14 -0.30 dB -17.04 dB 7:53 06-Where Are You
DR11 -0.71 dB -14.75 dB 11:36 07-Batwings
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Number of tracks: 7
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1407 kbps
Codec: FLAC
All thanks go to the original releaser