Coil / Panic
Artist Coil
Album Title: Panic
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Primary Genre Industrial: General Industrial
Format CD Single
Released 00/00/1985
Reissue Date 00/00/1990
Label TVT Records / Wax Trax! Records
Catalog No TVT 7013
Bar Code No 0 1658-17013-2 8
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Aqua Regis (2:25)
2. Panic (7:38)
3. Tainted Love (5:53)
Date Acquired 06/17/1993
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 17.00

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Review by Eugene Chadbourne
Coil had only been around a couple of years by the time the material on this EP was considered of interest for an American pressing courtesy of Wax Trax. A comparison between this and the previously released How to Destroy Angels EP is like the difference in view between a basement apartment with no windows and a balcony panorama of an entire neighborhood -- although in the latter case it might be located in a city such as Houston, TX, in which there is no such thing as zoning and people just do whatever they want. It is part of the appeal of this set of three tracks that such disparate elements come into the mix, some of them expected and some of them not. Dreary, depressed vocals and purloined drum and keyboard beats of noxious simplicity are associated with this musical style and era, but a player such as acoustic bassist Bill McGee adds something special. "Panic" is a performance that is full of the stimulating joy of collaboration, factors assuming varying relationships of importance as if someone had the courage to make a sandwich with his eyes closed. Several decades later a listener can pick out accomplishments that were imitated literally to death as well as details too idiosyncatic or original to pass into general useage. The much-heralded cover version of the Soft Cell hit "Tainted Love" is pretty boring, unfortunately.
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