Coil
Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil
The turn of the millennium ushered in an apex visionary phase for English esoteric duo Coil. Relocating from the city to the coastal quiet of Weston-super-Mare freed them to follow even more fringe obsessions, fully untethered from peer influence. During a single six-month stretch in 2000 they released the devious underworld sequel to 'Music To Play In The Dark', arcane drone summit 'Queens Of The Circulating Library', and a malevolent hour-long synthesizer exorcism prophetically titled 'Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil'. This latter work remains one of the group's most miasmic and mind-expanding creations, on par with 'Time Machines' - a sustained divination of shuddering, psychoactive noise, rippling with the motion sickness of an all-seeing eye.