COIL / NINE INCH NAILS - 'Recoiled' 

CSR193CD (25 February 2014)
CD in digipak
Barcode: 5060174956799




“Recoiled” is a rambunctious alchemy, of magikal Coil sensibilities and hi-tech home circa 90’s mixing technique, all fused in the cave-like early studios of Danny Hyde (Coil, Electric Sewer Age) / Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle).

These were the unrestrained PRE- BIG studio- mix downs, of four songs which long time Coil admirer / collaborator Trent Reznor requested Coil to remix. Reznor sent over the original multi-tracks and DATs to Hyde / Christopherson, who independently mixed versions and then met to synch both creations, molding them into these master versions.

”Recoiled” includes a fuller, more opulent version of the track ‘Closer’, which eventually made it onto the opening credits to the movie “SE7EN“. These 5 lengthy compositions (just under 40 minutes) are pre-Ableton / laptop generation type priest song creations, with the use of baby alarms and numerous wires to create bespoke effects.

These legendary tracks were always rumoured to exist and, only the due diligence of a dedicated NIN forum who hunted them down, are released/unleashed for your listening pleasure. 4 of the tracks were released on the download-only “Uncoiled”. A bonus, previously unheard track from the same sessions closes the album. Jhonn Balance is also manifest on this gilded constellation. Beautifully remastered. Digipak.

All orders direct from Cold Spring will receive a release promo card.

Track listing:

1. Gave Up (Open My Eyes) (5:28) 
2. Closer (Unrecalled) (7:41)
3. The Downward Spiral (A Gilded Sickness) (7:59)
4. Eraser (Reduction) 8:45
5. Eraser (Baby Alarm Remix) (8:54)

Reviews:

"A dizzying reworking of the NIN classic by the late and legendary Industrial duo Coil, originally remixed for the opening credits of Seven" (The Times)

"Beautiful, the stuff of legend, stuff that makes you un-age yourself about twenty-something years, stuff that brings you back to "then" when you wished it was now" (5/5, Deaf Sparrow).

 "The music here is so thrilling that it makes you rejoice in the fact that at least [COIL] did exist. It also serves as a reminder of Reznor’s genius, as even though the album is more Coil in nature, the blood, sweat and tears of Reznor’s original music is apparent throughout, making this a pure and inspired collaboration" (8/10, Louder Than War)

 "Christopherson and producer Danny Hyde toy with the stems of tracks like 'Eraser' and 'Closer', pruning back the original album's industrial rock thunder and murky atmospherics and recasting them... a curious electronica that tends towards the lysergic, the downbeat and the perverse" (Fact Mag)

 "Coil’s remixes got to the dark heart of Reznor’s songs, stripping back the noise to find the blackened mood beneath. They were the shadows cast long and deep. Recoiled gives those shadows shadows of their own... As time capsules go it’s pretty darned effective. Recoiled stands on its own, both as a reminder of just how dark 90s music got and of how interesting, at its best, the industrial genre can be" (The Line Of Best Fit)

 "Recoiled captures a moment when the industrial rock and bleak ambience of Nine Inch Nails was filtered through the minds of British experimentalists, Coil... The tortured voice of Reznor and the scorching industrial guitars of Nine Inch Nails runs throughout Recoiled, but it is the abstract and blurred sounds that Coil add that make these so essential" (Compulsion)

 "Full of dreamful eerie atmospheres in the best thinkable Coil'ish style... . "Recoiled" will unquestionably satisfy listeners of both NIN and Coil" (Vital Weekly).

 "...it seems ridiculous that these Coil mixes of early 90s NIN material have almost been left long enough to mythologise entirely. Recoiled opts to affirm the overlaps in musical mindset rather than mash the material into new shapes, retaining Reznor's sinister intentions and merely tweaking the backdrop behind him: Eraser is smeared into a bad trip of drone corridors and hydraulic guitars, while Closer's dancefloor lust is lulled into semi-consciousness by watery organs and the idle leakage of radio transmission" (Rock-A-Rolla)

 "Twenty years on from hearing those mixes, our interim immersion in and love for Coil is forcing us to realise just how much of the sonic weirdness on display here is classic Coil... The subtle and uncanny rearrangement of minor details on Recoiled's versions is only driving home just how deeply Coil's very particular magic was inoculated within us without notice at that impressionable age.... An utterly cult artifact, it will work an irresistible pull on a very certain sort of listener" (I Die You Die)

 "In the long history of Coil there's almost any remix where they were able to transform a symbol of an hedonistic epoch into a funeral march... An important release because it shows the rivers of sounds that can be developed upon the basic ideas of their sound" (4/5, Chain D.L.K.)

 "Geht es hier noch weiter weg vom eher harten Sound des (amerikanischen) Industrial und mehr in Bereiche des Glitch und Elektronica, was Coil natürlich herrlich beherrschen... Ein Muss also für NIN-Fans und interessant gewiss auch für die allermeisten Coil-Liebhaber. Eine Empfehlung für Leute (wie mich), die NIN sehr mögen, Coil aber lieben" (Black Magazin)

 "L'écoute de ces quelques morceaux on se demande bien pourquoi tant l'alchimie entre les deux combos fonctionne parfaitement, les musiciens de Coil ayant réussir à pervertir un peu plus les mélodies brutes et désespérés d'un Nine Inch Nails alors en pleine crise de foi. Une expérience auditive des plus jouissive et qui devrait réconforter les auditeurs les plus exigeants" (Hart Zine)

 "Nonostante la datazione dei brani ci riporti ad un periodo in cui i computer non avevano ancora invaso il territorio musicale, la qualità tecnico-artistica che ne risulta è nettamente superiore a quella di un qualsiasi lavoro moderno eseguito con un laptop... Lavoro che stimola emozioni e nostalgie. estemporanea lectio magistralis per chi oggi 'gioca' a fare musica coi pc. Forse il primo recupero a nome Coil fatto con passione e sincero affetto" (Darkroom)

 "Es que escuchando el alma musical de “Recoiled” podrán disfrutar de un estilo industrial de corte experimental que les dejará muy impresionados, sobre todo con la dramática interpretación desplegada de forma ácida y desgarrada... Sin duda alguna, con el EP “Recoiled”, la música de Coil y Nine Inch Nails vuelve a quedar situada en primera línea dentro de la escena musical en esta segunda década del siglo XXI... un trabajo musical destinado a convertirse en una mítica pieza de coleccionista" (Lux Atenea)

http://thequietus.com/articles/14600-trent-reznor-interview-coil-nine-inch-nails
http://www.side-line.com/reviews_comments.php?id=50949_0_17_0_C (8/9)