I've always enjoyed Coil's music. I discovered they're work back in the mid 90's. As a fan of acid house music back then, a friend of mine give me a copy of the Snow LP when he realized that I was listening to Psychic TV. This LP blow me away. It's one of the first techno oriented work released with a strong production. Since then, I followed they're releases until 2005, highlighted by the last Coil album, The Ape of Naples. John Balance who was the band lead singer as well as an highly respected musician died in 2004 from a rather mysterious accident. Balance was depressive at that time and you can easily ear is sadness all over the EP. The music and the lyrics are very dark and sad, sharing a heavy atmosphere in a beautiful manner. It remain difficult for me to listen to this album entirely as it totally destroy my current mood and make me feel sad as hell. I do think art is really effective when it raise emotional feeling upon the spectator. The Ape of Naples works for me.
9/10
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