The history of Coil told through two decades of interviews.
Between 1983 and 2004 the legendary British experimental band Coil established themselves as shape-shifting doyens of esoteric music, whose influence has grown spectacularly in the years since their untimely end. With music that could be dark, queer and difficult, but often retained a warped pop sensibility, Coil’s albums were multi-faceted repositories of esoteric knowledge, lysergic wisdom and ascerbic humour.
In Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations With Coil, core members John Balance and Peter Christopherson tell Coil’s story in the present-tense, and from their personal perspectives, as events unfold across their 20 year history. Accompanied by their various collaborators, Coil describe the fertile eruption of ideas, inspirations, and stray tangents that informed their lyrical and musical visions – as well as those dead paths and cast-off concepts that didn’t take root.
As well as a worm’s eye view of Coil, these interviews provide an insight into the late twentieth century’s evolving British cultural underground as channelled through two of its most astutely mercurial minds.