Coil – A Guide for Beginners: The Voice of Silver / A Guide for Finishers: A Hair of Gold (2020)

Review:
Deluxe reissue of 2xCD ‘Best Of’ by the esoteric experimental pioneers. Out of print on CD for almost two decades, Cold Spring release the official reissue of a much sought after ‘Best Of’ set by the acclaimed experimental group Coil, with A Guide For Beginners – The Voice Of Silver and A Guide For Finishers – A Hair Of Gold being made available together in one deluxe set. Officially licensed from FEELEE, this edition spans Coil’s entire career, featuring tracks from all their major albums. They were hand-picked by Coil to represent their best work and originally released to mark their first performance in Moscow in 2001. The artwork (text in English and Russian Cyrillic) sympathetically features the rarest of the images previously used in the original Russian and English editions and is packaged in a deluxe, glossy 8-panel digipak with spot matt-laminate varnish. — bandcamp



Track List:
Disc 1
01. Amethyst Deceivers
02. The Lost Rivers of London
03. Are You Shivering?
04. Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)
05. Where Are You?
06. At the Heart of It All
07. A Cold Cell
08. Batwings (a Limnal Hymn)
09. Who'll Fall?
10. The Dreamer is Still Asleep

Disc 2
01. Panic
02. First Dark Ride
03. Further Back and Faster
04. The Anal Staircase
05. Red Skeletons
06. Scope
07. Solar Lodge
08. Blue Rats
09. A.Y.O.R
10. The First Five Minutes After Violent Death


Media Report:
Genre: electronic, experimental
Country: UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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