How to Destroy Angels (Remixes and Re-Recordings) [EP] [Import]

How to Destroy Angels (Remixes and Re-Recordings) [EP] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Sleeper

2. Remotely

3. Sleeper II

4. Tectonic Plates

5. Dismal Orb

6. How to Destroy Angels II

7. Absolute Elsewhere

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Repressing of 1984 debut EP from British industrial/ electronic act. Standard jewel case.

Tracks:

How to Destroy Angels
Absolute Elsewhere

Album Description

Repressing of 1984 debut EP from British industrial/ electronic act. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Don't listen to this while Driving.......2003-04-29

Just a suggestion...I am not too sure if there are subliminal intentions with this album, or if it was intended for an "alternate state of mind"...but I was listening to "Remotely" on a drive home recently, and I got this strange desire to run over small animals. Luckily, I was able to restrain myself.

Dreamscapes of Violence?.......2001-08-12

This is one of the best albums I own--its bubbling tones and manipulated industrial crashes wield a power that trembles on the brink between the "conscious" and "subconscious".

The first time I listened to the album, I was tired and fell asleep to the burbling, intoxicating sounds of the first track, "Sleeper"--only to awake with mind-melting, too-real nightmares during the ritual crashing of "Tectonic Plates". However I didn't turn it off; the hypnotic repetitions of the rest of the album bewitched me and I retreated from my terror to treasure the album and its power and psychological depth.

This is very unlike much of Coil's earlier work, possibly the reason that an earlier reviewer said this was "their worst album" -- obviously untrue. It is more like Black Light District (for example), which I would also heartily recommend (though I have no wacky stories about sleeping and waking during that album). Also, give Lustmord's "Heresy" a listen, if you can find it (read my review here at Amazon by clicking on my name above).

Enough listening to me -- but buy this album if it even vaguely intrigues you, and you won't regret it.

Absolutely Horrifying.......2001-03-20

Quite frankly, I dont know whether to encourage you to rush out and buy this CD or to stay the hell away from it. I listened to this CD, along with some other Coil, one late college night, alone and in the dark, and it was easily the most horrifying listening experience of my life. The sounds these guys have created are quite maddening. In fact, if I were a religious man (which I'm not), I'd be willing to believe that How To Destroy Angels was created for doing just that. The sounds on this CD are not of this world; you'll be tempted to believe you are actually listening to a recording of Hell. Just make sure to have something suitably un-scary on hand after you get done listening so as not to slip into insanity forever =) I used Abbey Road.

- Steve

Buy it only if you own most of thier other albums.......2000-08-07

This album isn't very good at all, probably Coil's worst album, sounds closest to Scatology, and nothing like Musick To Play In The Dark, I wouldn't prefer it unless you are a die hard fan, collector, or are just rich.

Sound Textures Not Of This Earth.......2000-07-06

Unlike claimed in the editorial review, this is NOT a re-release of the one-sided 12" EP released on L.A.Y.L.A.H. records in 1984. It is a reworked and expanded edition that brings the aforementioned piece of art to new heights. Consisting of 7 tracks, it is a very dark sound collage that paved the way for the ambient droning Coil later did with "Time Machines" and the like, but is far more chaotic than their later works.

The first 5 tracks are new material, although some fragments are easily recognizable as being reworked snippets of older releases. Still, the result is both new music (?) and a very different atmosphere.

You must be most familiar with the original release to notice its differences to the reworked version "How To Destroy Angels 2", but if you listen closely, and this is a must for this album in general, as it is not considered to be "background music", you'll find the additions and variations, which are very fitting and, in a manner of speaking, quite potent. The last track, "Absolute Elsewhere", is taken from the flip side of the aforementioned 1-sided LP - i.e. the backside of HTDA's vinyl edition was unplayable (empty), whilst the CD "version" of it is 1 second of silence. (If you think Coil were pulling your leg here, you have not understood the alchemy of their music.)

All in all, this is a very mental record - with every possible linguistic interpretation of this word included.

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