Horse Rotovator [Import]

Coil | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Some Bizzare
• ASIN: B00000I24J
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,890 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #87 in Music > Dance & DJ > IDM

Track Listings

1. The Anal Staircase

2. Slur

3. Babylero

4. Ostia(The Death Of Pasolini)

5. Herald

6. Penetralia

7. Circles Of Mania

8. Blood From The Air

9. Who By Fire

10. The Golden Section

11. The First Five Minutes After Death

12. Ravenous

Editorial Reviews

Originally released in January 1987. Contains 12 tracks in all. Eleven original and a cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Who By Fire'. Marc Almond sings backing vocals on 'Who By Fire' & 'Slur'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Doom-laden, grandiose, perverse...a masterpiece!, March 28, 2003

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B. G. Shultz "pyfr" (Rockwall, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Horse Rotovator (Audio CD)

This was Coil's second full-length release, and it is perhaps one of the most genuinely dark albums ever recorded. Most of the songs have a menacing sexual feel to them, and the subject matter is death and perversion. "Ostia" explores the murder of deviant Italian filmmaker Pasolini (who directed the sleaze-fest "Salo: 120 Days of Sodom"), while "The Golden Section" is a monologue about the erotic nature of death, set to a symphonic apocalyptic score. There are aspects of electronica to the music, but this CD of course predated the whole mainstream industrial/techno movement of the 90's, so it's more of a subtlety. There is an Eastern feel to some of the music, and "Penetralia" demonstrates how much of an influence this band was for artists like NIN and Ministry. The cover of Leonard Cohen's "Who By Fire" is outstanding, remarkably faithful to the original while still sounding like Coil. It goes without saying that, with song titles like "The Anal Staircase" and pictures of nude male statues, there is an undeniable homosexual theme to much of this material, but it's not something that is constantly thrown in the listener's face. I recommend this for anybody who is into disturbing, avant-garde industrial music to be dismembered to.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Aniversary Review, March 4, 2004

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FormerZygote "Opinion" (Right Here, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Horse Rotovator (Audio CD)

10 years ago I first found and fell in love with this CD. I have never liked it more in all that time then I do now. Its almost mind bending how creative music was when it was hard to make. In 1986 There was tape edits and noises to work with, there was analog and synth, nothing modern or digital and it reflects in sound today. I can't forsee a better experimental industrial/avant garde band to ever exsist. Coil are simply uncompromising originals.

As mentioned by other reviewers this album was known to be an extended meditation on death. Some of the commentary in a narrative "the Golden Section" speaks of death's similarity to love. I've only now found I understand that narrative. The song following "The Golden Section," track 12 called "The first five minutes after death" can lul me into comfort or into tears.

This album should hone to anyone with a learing world view, someone who lives in existentialism, someone who is filled with sadness, someone who has ever truely loved... for death like love appears all embracing and transcending.

You'd have to hear this album through every minute to understand its power, cause not a single song in the album defines it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You swallow one, you just swallow another..., May 1, 2004

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El Reanimator-o (The CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Horse Rotovator (Audio CD)

Dark. Soul crushing. Insanity. My first experience with Coil was the "How To Destroy Angels" release. NOT what I expected, considering I bought their work for the NIN remixes they had done. Yeah, such a shame Coil were about 80x better. Anyways, "Horse Rotorvator" is the anti Depeche Mode. It's a truly gothic work. None of the makeup and glam, but just the death and atmosphere. And it doesn't sound horribly dated for a nearly 20 year old album.