Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)

by Coil

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Boyd This album is from my the best artist who given me so much pleasure

Caesar This work dares to challenge the boundaries of the conventional, taking the listener on a journey beyond space and time. Immersed in the fifteen tracks of Moon's Milk, we find ourselves catapulted into a realm of ecstasy and obsession. The duo Coil transcends the music itself, creating an experience that goes beyond just listening. Each note is a door that opens to unknown worlds, inviting us to explore the depths of our consciousness.
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Favorite track: A White Rainbow.

uberwenig Coil invented a musick outside time & space. Each album was a ritual that actually moved the limits of reality. For those who could listen and understand.
I am shivering...

cumslegborenail This completes my coil collection, now I suffer an eternal erection.

xhi Considered by some the pinnacle of their late oeuvre, the four phases of »Moon's Milk« unfold like a sonically postmodern myth in fifteen tracks, either ecstatically telluric or hauntingly cosmic, depending on your perspective. More diverse than the legendary »Musick To Play In The Dark« duet but also as immersive as few works in the history of western sound sculpturing, this was already destined to be released in a lavish LP set when it first surfaced as a compilation over two decades ago.

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1.	Moon's Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull (Part 1) 08:29	buy track
2.	Moon's Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull (Part 2) 08:10	buy track
3.	Bee Stings 04:54	buy track
4.	Glowworms / Waveforms 05:54	buy track
5.	Summer Substructures 08:07	buy track
6.	A Warning From The Sun (For Fritz) 16:34	buy track
7.	Regel 01:14	buy track
8.	Rosa Decidua 04:53	buy track
9.	Switches 04:43	buy track
10.	The Auto-Asphyxiating Hierophant 05:55	buy track
11.	Amethyst Deceivers 06:43	buy track
12.	A White Rainbow 08:52	buy track
13.	North 03:45	buy track
14.	Magnetic North 08:50	buy track
15.	Christmas Is Now Drawing Near 03:26	buy track
16.	Copal 16:54	buy track
17.	Bankside 06:54	buy track
18.	The Coppice Meat 10:50	buy track
19.	Ü Pel (Incense Offering) 12:34	buy track

about

First compiled as a double CD in 2002, 'Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)' is a suite of four EPs that Coil released seasonally via their in-house Eskaton imprint across 1998. The line-up for these sessions were John Balance, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, Drew McDowall, and William Breeze. Recorded primarily at their home studio in Chiswick, London on the eve of a permanent relocation to the small seaside town of Weston-Super- Mare, the collection has long loomed as a pivotal and pinnacle work in the group's discography, but has never been officially reissued, or repressed on vinyl. Time has only ripened its tapestry of regal strangeness.

Arranged sequentially in tribute to the equinoxes and solstices, 'Moon's Milk' captures Coil at a revelatory crossroads, leaning deeper into improvisation, spontaneity, and sound design. "Moon's Milk or Under an Unquiet Skull" initiates the proceedings on 'Spring Equinox', a two-part netherworld organ séance woven from vocal drones, cathedral keys, seasick strings, and opiated undertow. From there, 'Summer Solstice' skews lighter but no less incantational, with Balance embracing his voice- as-instrument across lucid dream torch songs ("Bee Stings"), purgatorial spoken word ("Glowworms/Waveforms"), sultry chamber pieces ("Summer Substructures"), and falsetto ravings ("A Warning From The Sun (For Fritz)").

'Autumn Equinox' exudes more of a pensive and twilit mood, from the Rose McDowall-sung neofolk ballad "Rosa Decidua" ("I hear your voice sing near to me / I've put away the poisoned chalice (for now) / And lie down amongst the flowerbeds") to hall-of-lords hallucination "The Auto- Asphyxiating Hierophant” to the liminal string-plucked classic "Amethyst Deceivers," featuring excellent alien guitar by Breeze layered with Balance’s oft-quoted couplet: "Pay your respects to the vultures / For they are your future."

The album’s final chapter, 'Winter Solstice', is its most swooning, remote, and ceremonial. Opener "A White Rainbow" stirs strings, layered choral vocals, and shivering rhythm into an imploding burial hymn. "North" oscillates bleakly, a ghost in the machine murmuring opaque prophecy ("This black dog has no owner / This black dog has no odour"), while "Magnetic North" is its inverse, a guided meditation of gently flickering software and surreal chakra poetics ("Red rose filling the skull / Yellow cube in the lower pelvis / Silver moon crescent below the navel"). The suite fades to grey with a traditional English carol ("Christmas Is Now Drawing Near"), rendered like an executioner's song by Rose McDowall’s doomed, beautiful voice.

The Dais box set includes the entirety of the rare 'Moon's Milk Bonus Disc' CD-R / 2019 Threshold Archives Copal CD, which includes three collaborations with Thighpaulsandra. This material is as rich and intoxicating as the previous four phases, ranging from electro-acoustic singing bowl rituals ("Copal") to dissonant electronic recitations of visionary Angus Maclise poetry ("The Coppice Meat") to ominous classical melancholia ("Bankside"). Once again, Coil confirm the vastness of their confounding, infinite alchemy, explored and refined across decades of experimentation – both sonic and bodily. From post-industrial to post-everything, theirs is an art untethered, in the wilds of its own design.

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Audio remastered by Josh Bonati under supervision from Drew McDowall, William Breeze and Thighpaulsandra
Original artwork restored by Steven Stapleton

credits

released March 15, 2024

Slipcase artwork by Steven Stapleton
Jacket plasmagrams artwork by Coil
Performed by Peter Christopherson, John Balance, Drew McDowall (1-15), William Breeze (2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 17, 19), and Thighpaulsandra (16, 18, 19)
Featuring Rose McDowall (vocals) on "Rosa Decidua" and "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near"
Featuring Robert Lee (violin) on "Rosa Decidua" and "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near"
Design/layout by Nathaniel Young
Remastered by Josh Bonati

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