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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name = Love's Secret Domain
| name = Love's Secret Domain
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| cover = CoilLovesSecretDomainAlbumCover.jpg
| cover = CoilLovesSecretDomainAlbumCover.jpg
| alt =
| alt =
| released = March 15, 1991<small>(US)</small><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Hardy|first=Ernest|date=March 9, 1991|title=Rap/Dance|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox54unse_28/page/26?q=coil|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]|volume=54|issue=30|page=27|access-date=March 18, 2019|via=the [[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
| released = {{start date|1991|3|15|df=yes}} (US)<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Hardy|first=Ernest|date=March 9, 1991|title=Rap/Dance|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox54unse_28/page/26?q=coil|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]|volume=54|issue=30|page=27|access-date=March 18, 2019|via=the [[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
| recorded = January 1988–October 1990
| recorded = January 1988 – October 1990
| venue =
| venue =
| studio =
| studio =
| genre = [[post-industrial music|Post-industrial]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jansen |first1=Skip |title=Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/musick-to-play-in-the-dark-mw0000371784 |website=AllMusic |accessdate=29 November 2018}}</ref>
| genre = {{Flatlist|
* [[Electronic music|Electronic]]
* [[Experimental music|experimental]]
}}
| length = 60:34
| length = 60:34
| label = [[Wax Trax]], [[Threshold House]]
| label =
* Torso
* [[Wax Trax]]
* [[Threshold House]]
* Infinite Fog
| producer = [[Coil (band)|Coil]]
| producer =
* [[Coil (band)|Coil]] and [[Danny Hyde]]
| prev_title = [[Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)]]
| prev_title = [[Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)]]
| prev_year = 1990
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = [[Stolen & Contaminated Songs]]
| next_title = [[Stolen & Contaminated Songs]]
| next_year = 1991
| next_year = 1992
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|work=[[AllMusic]]|title=Love's Secret Domain – Coil|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/loves-secret-domain-mw0000710785|last=Bush|first=John|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref>
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Bush">{{cite web|work=[[AllMusic]]|title=Love's Secret Domain – Coil|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/loves-secret-domain-mw0000710785|last=Bush|first=John|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref>
|rev6=''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev2=''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev6Score={{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|volume=2|date=1998|edition=3rd|chapter=Coil|pages=1155–1156|isbn=1561592374|publisher=Muse UK Ltd|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
|rev2Score={{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Larkin">{{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|volume=2|date=1998|edition=3rd|title=Coil|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo02lark/page/1155/mode/1up|pages=1155–1156|isbn=1-56159-237-4|lccn=98-37439|location=London, New York|publisher=Muze, Grove's Dictionaries|oclc=1033565487|via=the Internet Archive}}</ref>
}}
}}
{{Listen|filename=Coil-windowpane.ogg|title="Windowpane"|description=Sample of "Windowpane", taken from the album ''Love's Secret Domain''}}
{{Listen|filename=Coil-windowpane.ogg|title="Windowpane"|description=Sample of "Windowpane", taken from the album ''Love's Secret Domain''}}


'''''Love's Secret Domain''''' is the third studio album by the British experimental band [[Coil (band)|Coil]], released in 1991. The album marked a departure from the brooding synthesizers and melodies of their first two albums, focusing more on [[Sampling (music)|sampling]] inspired by [[acid house]].{{fact|date=January 2019}} The singles released from the album were "[[Windowpane (album)|Windowpane]]" and "[[The Snow (song)|The Snow]]". Guest vocalists include [[Marc Almond]] on "Titan Arch" and [[Annie Anxiety]] on "Things Happen".
'''''Love's Secret Domain''''' is the third studio album by the British experimental band [[Coil (band)|Coil]], released in 1991. The singles released from the album were "[[Windowpane (song)|Windowpane]]" and "[[The Snow (song)|The Snow]]". Guest vocalists include [[Marc Almond]] on the song "Titan Arch" and [[Annie Anxiety]] on the song "Things Happen".


==Background==
==Background==
The recording sessions for Love's Secret Domain were characterized by Coil's compulsive drug use at the time, along with sleep deprivation which apparently lead to conflict between members; Peter Christopherson remarked that '[he could] remember [[John Balance|Balance]] and [[Steven Stapleton|Steve]] having these mad arguments that would go on for 48 hours without sleep over which sequence of words should be used'<ref name="quietus">{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/20284-coil-interview-englands-hidden-reverse-david-keenan|title=The Quietus {{!}} Features {{!}} A Quietus Interview {{!}} Coil Interview & Extract From England's Hidden Reverse|accessdate=October 12, 2018}}</ref>. In a period of constant drug use during the sessions<ref name="quietus"></ref>, they both struggled with using the studio mixing room due to constant hallucinations of '10 foot tall Amazonian warriors and Babylonian kings' who were 'crowding' the room<ref name="quietus"></ref>. [[Stephen Thrower]] admitted he had experienced synchronized hallucinations with Balance during this period<ref name="quietus"></ref>.
The recording sessions for ''Love's Secret Domain'' were characterized by Coil's compulsive drug use at the time, along with [[sleep deprivation]] which apparently led to conflict between members; [[Peter Christopherson]] remarked that "[he could] remember [[John Balance|Balance]] and [[Stephen Thrower|Steve]] having these mad arguments that would go on for 48 hours without sleep over which sequence of words should be used".<ref name="quietus">{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/20284-coil-interview-englands-hidden-reverse-david-keenan|title=The Quietus {{!}} Features {{!}} A Quietus Interview {{!}} Coil Interview & Extract From England's Hidden Reverse|accessdate=October 12, 2018}}</ref> In a period of constant drug use during the sessions,<ref name="quietus" /> they both struggled with using the studio mixing room due to constant hallucinations of "10-foot-tall Amazonian warriors and Babylonian kings" who were "crowding" the room.<ref name="quietus" /> [[Stephen Thrower]] admitted he had experienced synchronized hallucinations with Balance during this period.<ref name="quietus" />


The album's emphasis on [[Sampling (music)|sampling]] was inspired by the [[acid house]] scene, although it is less explicitly indebted to the dance style than the contemporaneous work of [[Psychic TV]].<ref name="Bush">{{cite web|work=[[AllMusic]]|title=Love's Secret Domain – Coil|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/loves-secret-domain-mw0000710785|last=Bush|first=John|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref>
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The cover features a painting by [[Steven Stapleton]] originally created on an outhouse door that he found in Cooloorta, most known as his hometown.

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The cover features a painting by [[Steven Stapleton]] originally created on an outhouse door that he found in Cooloorta, the Irish [[townland]] where he resides.


A working title for the album was ''The Side Effects of Life''.<ref name="Compulsion, Number 1">{{cite web
A working title for the album was ''The Side Effects of Life''.<ref name="Compulsion, Number 1">{{cite web
| url = http://brainwashed.com/coil/writings/compulsion.html
| url = http://brainwashed.com/coil/writings/compulsion.html
| title = Compulsion
| title = Compulsion
| publisher = ''Compulsion'' (1992 Winter)
| publisher = Compulsion (1992 Winter)
| accessdate= 2006-12-27
| accessdate= 2006-12-27
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


The final track, "Love's Secret Domain", borrows lyrics from the song "[[In Dreams (Roy Orbison song)|In Dreams]]" by [[Roy Orbison]]: "In dreams I walk with you / In dreams I talk to you / In dreams you're mine / All the time." Lyrics are also culled from [[The Sick Rose]] by [[William Blake]], specifically, "O rose, thou art sick".
The final track, "Love's Secret Domain", borrows lyrics from the song "[[In Dreams (Roy Orbison song)|In Dreams]]" by [[Roy Orbison]]: "In dreams I walk with you / In dreams I talk to you / In dreams you're mine / All the time." Lyrics are also culled from "[[The Sick Rose]]" by [[William Blake]], specifically, "O rose, thou art sick", besides a quotation from [[Arthur Machen]]'s short story "[[The White People]]".


''Love's Secret Domain'' was later remastered by [[Thighpaulsandra]] with slightly different track lengths. The album is currently available for purchasing in [[Advanced audio coding|AAC]], [[MP3]], and [[FLAC]] formats at [https://web.archive.org/web/20061110044056/http://www.thresholdhouse.com/ Coil's official website].
''Love's Secret Domain'' was later remastered by [[Thighpaulsandra]] with slightly different track lengths.


The song "Disco Hospital" was covered by [[Matmos]] on their [[Extended play|EP]] ''[[California Rhinoplasty]]''.
The song "Disco Hospital" was covered by [[Matmos]] on their [[Extended play|EP]] ''[[California Rhinoplasty]]''.

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is an obvious acronym for the album title.


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
=== 12" Vinyl===
=== 12" vinyl===
{{tracklist |headline=Side A
{{track listing |headline=Side A
|all_music=Coil |all_lyrics=[[John Balance]]
|all_music=Coil |all_lyrics=[[John Balance]]
|produced=[[Coil]] & [[Danny Hyde]]
|title1=Disco Hospital |length1=2:17
|title1=Disco Hospital |length1=2:17
|title2=Teenage Lightning |length2=4:29 |note2="Teenage Lightning 2" on CD
|title2=Teenage Lightning |length2=4:29 |note2="Teenage Lightning 2" on CD
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|title5=Dark River |length5=6:27
|title5=Dark River |length5=6:27
}}
}}
{{tracklist |headline=Side B
{{track listing |headline=Side B
|title6=Further Back and Faster |length6=7:54
|title6=Further Back and Faster |length6=7:54
|title7=Titan Arch |length7=5:02
|title7=Titan Arch |length7=5:02
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===CD===
===CD===
{{track listing
{{tracklist
|all_lyrics=[[John Balance]], except track #3 |all_music=Coil
|all_lyrics=[[John Balance]], except track #3 |all_music=Coil
|title1=Disco Hospital |length1=2:18
|title1=Disco Hospital |length1=2:18
|title2=Teenage Lightning 1 |length2=1:49
|title2=Teenage Lightning 1 |length2=1:49
|title3=Things Happen |length3=4:22 |lyrics3=[[Little Annie|Annie Anxiety Bandez]]
|title3=Things Happen |length3=4:22 |note3=writer: [[Little Annie|Annie Anxiety Bandez]]
|title4=The Snow |length4=6:41
|title4=The Snow |length4=6:41
|title5=Dark River |length5=6:27
|title5=Dark River |length5=6:27
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|title13=Love's Secret Domain |length13=3:52
|title13=Love's Secret Domain |length13=3:52
}}
}}

==Personnel==
Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Love's Secret Domain''.<ref name=liner>{{cite AV media notes|title=Love's Secret Domain|others=[[Coil (band)|Coil]]|type=liner notes|publisher=[[Wax Trax]]|id=WAXCD7143|year=1991}}</ref>

{{div col}}

===Additional musicians===
* Charles Hayward – drums {{small|(tracks: 3, 13)}}
* [[Little Annie|Annie Anxiety Bandez]] – vocals {{small|(track 3)}}
* Mike McEvoy – keyboards {{small|(track 4)}}
* Juan Ramirez – Spanish guitar {{small|(tracks: 5, 7, 12)}}
* Cyrung – didgeridoo {{small|(tracks: 5, 6, 9)}}
* Rose McDowall – backing vocals {{small|(track 8)}}
* Marc Almond – vocals {{small|(track 10)}}
* Billy McGee – orchestra {{small|(track 11)}}
* Audrey Riley – cello {{small|(track 11)}}
* Jane Fenton – cello {{small|(track 11)}}
* Julia Girdwood – oboe {{small|(track 11)}}
* Jos Pook – viola {{small|(track 11)}}
* Sue Dench – viola {{small|(track 11)}}
* Andrew Davies – violin {{small|(track 11)}}
* Clive Dobbins – violin {{small|(track 11)}}
* Gini Ball – violin {{small|(track 11)}}
* Sally Herbert – violin {{small|(track 11)}}

===Technical personnel===
* Coil – production
* [[Danny Hyde]] – produced, production, programming, engineering
{{div col end}}


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
*[http://www.discogs.com/Coil-Loves-Secret-Domain/master/21323 discogs.com entries]
*{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Coil-Loves-Secret-Domain/release/8300934 |title=Coil – Love's Secret Domain (CD, album) |website=Discogs |accessdate=2017-12-05}}
*{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Coil-Loves-Secret-Domain/release/8300934 |title=Coil – Love's Secret Domain (CD, album) |website=Discogs |accessdate=2017-12-05}}

==External links==
* {{Discogs master|21323}}
* {{MusicBrainz release group|mbid=abbeeaed-40dc-32ae-9c9f-2dfcc8eddfc3|name=Love's Secret Domain}}
* [http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/torso181.php?site=coil08 ''Love's Secret Domain''] at [[Brainwashed (website)|Brainwashed]]


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Latest revision as of 19:59, 3 November 2024

Love's Secret Domain
Studio album by
Coil
Released15 March 1991 (1991-03-15) (US)[1]
RecordedJanuary 1988 – October 1990
GenrePost-industrial[2]
Length60:34
Label
Producer
Coil chronology
Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)
(1987) 		Love's Secret Domain
(1991) 		Stolen & Contaminated Songs
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
"Windowpane"
Sample of "Windowpane", taken from the album Love's Secret Domain
Problems playing this file? See media help.

Love's Secret Domain is the third studio album by the British experimental band Coil, released in 1991. The singles released from the album were "Windowpane" and "The Snow". Guest vocalists include Marc Almond on the song "Titan Arch" and Annie Anxiety on the song "Things Happen".

Background

[edit]

The recording sessions for Love's Secret Domain were characterized by Coil's compulsive drug use at the time, along with sleep deprivation which apparently led to conflict between members; Peter Christopherson remarked that "[he could] remember Balance and Steve having these mad arguments that would go on for 48 hours without sleep over which sequence of words should be used".[5] In a period of constant drug use during the sessions,[5] they both struggled with using the studio mixing room due to constant hallucinations of "10-foot-tall Amazonian warriors and Babylonian kings" who were "crowding" the room.[5] Stephen Thrower admitted he had experienced synchronized hallucinations with Balance during this period.[5]

The album's emphasis on sampling was inspired by the acid house scene, although it is less explicitly indebted to the dance style than the contemporaneous work of Psychic TV.[3]

The cover features a painting by Steven Stapleton originally created on an outhouse door that he found in Cooloorta, the Irish townland where he resides.

A working title for the album was The Side Effects of Life.[6]

The final track, "Love's Secret Domain", borrows lyrics from the song "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison: "In dreams I walk with you / In dreams I talk to you / In dreams you're mine / All the time." Lyrics are also culled from "The Sick Rose" by William Blake, specifically, "O rose, thou art sick", besides a quotation from Arthur Machen's short story "The White People".

Love's Secret Domain was later remastered by Thighpaulsandra with slightly different track lengths.

The song "Disco Hospital" was covered by Matmos on their EP California Rhinoplasty.

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is an obvious acronym for the album title.

Track listing

[edit]

12" vinyl

[edit]

All lyrics are written by John Balance; all music is composed by Coil

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Disco Hospital"2:17
2."Teenage Lightning" ("Teenage Lightning 2" on CD)4:29
3."Windowpane"5:58
4."The Snow"3:55
5."Dark River"6:27
Side B
No.TitleLength
6."Further Back and Faster"7:54
7."Titan Arch"5:02
8."Chaostrophy"5:37
9."Love's Secret Domain"3:52

CD

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All lyrics are written by John Balance, except track #3; all music is composed by Coil

No.TitleLength
1."Disco Hospital"2:18
2."Teenage Lightning 1"1:49
3."Things Happen" (writer: Annie Anxiety Bandez)4:22
4."The Snow"6:41
5."Dark River"6:27
6."Where Even the Darkness Is Something to See"3:05
7."Teenage Lightning 2" ("Teenage Lightning" from original LP)5:09
8."Windowpane"6:11
9."Further Back and Faster"7:55
10."Titan Arch"5:02
11."Chaostrophy"5:37
12."Lorca Not Orca"2:04
13."Love's Secret Domain"3:52

Personnel

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Credits adapted from the liner notes of Love's Secret Domain.[7]

Additional musicians

[edit]
  • Charles Hayward – drums (tracks: 3, 13)
  • Annie Anxiety Bandez – vocals (track 3)
  • Mike McEvoy – keyboards (track 4)
  • Juan Ramirez – Spanish guitar (tracks: 5, 7, 12)
  • Cyrung – didgeridoo (tracks: 5, 6, 9)
  • Rose McDowall – backing vocals (track 8)
  • Marc Almond – vocals (track 10)
  • Billy McGee – orchestra (track 11)
  • Audrey Riley – cello (track 11)
  • Jane Fenton – cello (track 11)
  • Julia Girdwood – oboe (track 11)
  • Jos Pook – viola (track 11)
  • Sue Dench – viola (track 11)
  • Andrew Davies – violin (track 11)
  • Clive Dobbins – violin (track 11)
  • Gini Ball – violin (track 11)
  • Sally Herbert – violin (track 11)

Technical personnel

[edit]
  • Coil – production
  • Danny Hyde – produced, production, programming, engineering

References

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  1. ^ Hardy, Ernest (9 March 1991). "Rap/Dance". Cash Box. Vol. 54, no. 30. p. 27. Retrieved 18 March 2019 – via the Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Jansen, Skip. "Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b Bush, John. "Love's Secret Domain – Coil". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1998). "Coil". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2 (3rd ed.). London, New York: Muze, Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 1155–1156. ISBN 1-56159-237-4. LCCN 98-37439. OCLC 1033565487 – via the Internet Archive.
  5. ^ a b c d "The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | Coil Interview & Extract From England's Hidden Reverse". Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Compulsion". Compulsion (1992 Winter). Retrieved 27 December 2006.
  7. ^ Love's Secret Domain (liner notes). Coil. Wax Trax. 1991. WAXCD7143.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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