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The Key to Joy Is Disobedience

Coil · 2003

421 min · 36 tracks · experimental music

A tapestry of haunting soundscapes interwoven with abstract narratives and experimental textures.

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

  • 1 Everything Keeps Dissolving Standout 15:14
  • 2 Queens of the Circulating Library Standout 13:50
  • 3 Chasms 21:39

Disc 2

  • 1 Everything Keeps Dissolving Standout 5:28
  • 3 Circulating 12:48
  • 4 The Universe Is a Haunted House/Chasms 18:09
  • 5 Elves 8:17

Disc 3

  • 1 Something / Higher Beings Command 8:45
  • 2 Amethyst Deceivers 6:32
  • 3 What Kind of Animal Are You? 8:53
  • 4 Blood From the Air Standout 5:25
  • 5 The Green Child 7:56
  • 6 Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil 17:11

Disc 4

  • 1 Anarcadia: All Horned Animals 6:54
  • 2 Amethyst Deceivers 7:46
  • 3 Slur 5:48
  • 4 A Cold Cell 6:25
  • 5 Broccoli 9:15
  • 6 Paranoid Inlay 8:08
  • 7 Sick Mirrors (version) 8:49
  • 8 A.Y.O.R. 6:46
  • 9 Backwards 15:22

Disc 5

  • 1 I Am Angie Bowie (Sine Waves) 6:01
  • 2 Last Rites of Spring 10:44
  • 3 Are You Shivering? 8:22
  • 4 Amethyst Deceivers 8:26
  • 5 A Warning From the Sun 6:21
  • 6 The Universe Is a Haunted House 11:17
  • 7 Ostia 8:15
  • 8 I Don’t Want to Be the One 5:12
  • 9 Bang Bang 2:46
  • 10 An Unearthly Red 12:23

Disc 6

  • 1 [untitled] 20:56
  • 2 [untitled] 25:39
  • 3 [untitled] 29:41

Disc 7

  • 1 Megalithomania! 40:24

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