Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil

Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the present-tense, as events unfold across their twenty-year history.

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 acerbic humor. In Everything Keeps Dissolving, 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 twenty-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 castoff concepts that didn't take root. No only a worm's eye view of Coil, these interviews provide insight into the late twentieth century's evolving British cultural underground as channeled through two of its most astutely mercurial minds.

Author: Nick Soulsby
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Published: 05/16/2023
Pages: 600
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.80d
ISBN13: 9781913689438
ISBN10: 1913689433
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Electronic
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Occultism
- Art | Individual Artists | Monographs

About the Author
Nick Soulsby is the author of Swans: Sacrifice And Transcendence, Thurston Moore: We Sing a New Language, and Cobain On Cobain: Interviews and Encounters.