Coil - Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

Primary Artist
Coil
Album Title
Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)
Release Date
1987 
Time
 
Review by Eugene Chadbourne
The use of the word gold in the album title is ironic, since a collection of outtakes and leftovers is generally considered to weigh in well under the gold scale. With a group such as the evolving Coil collaboration, however, there's the chance that a well-conceived collection of archive material could have quite a positive impact, whatever the relative status of individual tracks in terms of what projects they were first created for. Rejected material can become a highlight out of a combination of whatever unusual aspects already exist in a piece as well as the dramatic impact of a newly conceived program flow. Read More