Coil - Love's Secret Domain

Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Techno, Experimental, Industrial
Year:
1991

Tracklist

Disco Hospital 2:17
Teenage Lightning 1 1:48
Things Happen 4:20
The Snow 6:41
Dark River 6:27
Where Even The Darkness Is Something To See 3:03
Teenage Lightning 2 4:29
Windowpane 6:00
Further Back And Faster 7:54
Titan Arch 5:02
Chaostrophy 5:37
Lorca Not Orca 2:03
Love's Secret Domain 3:52

Versions

Title, FormatLabelCat#CountryYear
Love's Secret Domain (CD, Album) Torso TORSO CD 181 Germany 1991
Love's Secret Domain (CD, Album) Wax Trax! Records WAXCD 7143 US 1991
Love's Secret Domain (LP, Album) Torso TORSO 33181 Netherlands 1991
Love's Secret Domain (LP, TP) Wax Trax! Records WAX 7143 US 1991
Love's Secret Domain (LP, W/Lbl, TP) Torso TORSO 33181 Netherlands 1991
Love's Secret Domain (CD, Album, RE) TVT Records, Wax Trax! Records TVT 7143-2 US 1993
Love's Secret Domain (Cass, Album) TVT Records, Wax Trax! Records TVT 7143 US 1993
Love's Secret Domain (CD, Album, RM) Threshold House LOCI CD17 UK 2001
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Reviews & Discussion

Rated 5/5
Review by hivehead May 17, 2009

referencing Love's Secret Domain, CD, Album, WAXCD 7143

This is a legendary lost gem of the 90's. Coil influenced Autechre, Boards of Canada, & many other prominent electronic artists with this masterpiece of an album. Give Coil a good dose of ecstasy, DMT, speed, lsd/magic mushrooms, & you get Love's Secret Domain. If you're looking for a super innovative, highly influential electronic album look no further. This was before the whole Protools revolution & many of the loops on this album were cut from the actual sound reels & re-taped by hand. Key tracks include: Windowpane, The Snow, Further Back & Faster, Chaostrophy, & Even Where The Darkness Is Something To See.
Review by Sneak Mar 12, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

referencing Love's Secret Domain, CD, Album, TORSO CD 181

Hey I just remember hirering this one from one of my buddies. And boy oh boy this is gonna be fun. The cold and rash sound, totally ground level of hate and love. Totally awsome recording. hmm I dont remember much of it, other than it is exceptionally clever and tasty. gimmi more!
Review by Min-Ra Jul 03, 2003

referencing Love's Secret Domain, CD, Album, RE, TVT 7143-2

1993: techno was beginning to grow cliched and crusty already. Love's Secret Domain came flying in from left field and knocked a lot of us upside the head. It wasn't techno or rock or post-punk, house, experimental or industrial. A little of each, certainly but most of all it is a concept album. A personal oeuvre of some young bright minds saying "here's how we percieve existence". The tension of hyperawareness runs through each of these pieces like a painful throbbing wound.
Disco hospital starts with some cut-up to raise the shackles of the listener and blast away preconcieved notions. Teenage lightning is a wistful glance back to the intense and unforgettable moments of first love. Things happen brings us past the glow of youth into the late-twenties, with a fantastically run-down female vocalist who sounds like an east european Dorian Gray. Then comes the snow: voices of the dead singing at the living across the frozen wasteland of time. Dark River is a contemplative demo that might be filler, but it provides some needed emotional breathing room before track 6, which is possibly the best use of digeridoo in any piece i've heard (before it became overused). Also the dub-like bass kick on 06 is a great speaker test. Teenage lightning 2 is an even more keening bossa nova revierie on lost youth. Windowpane is a bit of an electro-dub throwback to Throbbing-Gristle/Psychic_TV. Further Back and Faster has to be one of trippiest damn tracks ever - a unique combination of dub rhythm and acid synth textures - play it LOUD! Titan arch takes us into gothy This Mortal Coil-esque trance. Chaostrophy is a fantastic piece of heavy drug schizophrenia - shades of 'Revolution Number Nine'. Lorca Not Orca is our third melancholy encounter with Teenage Lightning. The album finishes strong with a quavering shakespearian spin on William Blake's "the Sick Rose". Anyone into Industrial, Goth or Darkwave or just plain creative electronica needs to hear (and buy!) this truly seminal CD.
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