Photos of Everything Keeps Dissolving - a book of interviews with Coil

A New Book Compiling Interviews with Legendary Underground British Musical Outfit Coil - compiled and edited by Nick Soulsby and published by Strange Attractor Press

Special Edition with Art Cards, Quotations Book, and featuring my vinyl copy of ...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms. 

(text is taken from my Instagram post on March 24th, 2023)

A beautiful new book, Everything Keeps Dissolving, by Nick Soulsby and published by @strangeattractorpress compiling interviews of Coil's Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson. The special signed edition I got came with a small book of quotes as well as these art cards of Balance's drawings.

another shot of the book and art cards

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Coil is perhaps one of the most enigmatic and ceaselessly interesting musical groups there ever was. Though both founding members are long since passed on, the output of music they have given unto the world will forever exist in deviance to everything that makes life mundane, happenstance, meaningless, and suicidally boring. Both Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson were completely original geniuses in their own right and together they managed to create music that has impacted me and several others to a profound degree. They existed not just on the margins of society and pop culture, but in a whole other higher dimension from it.

shot of the book without the dust jacket and a clearer look at art cards

Since there is much in terms of rumors and stories and controversy about this era of British underground music, and Coil especially kept to the shadows, this huge book of compiled interviews of Peter and Jhonn is a fantastic treasure to showcase that they weren't simply provocateurs but tremendous innovators, sensitive thinkers, and supreme creative artists in every sense of the word. No one ever will come even remotely close to replicating them or coming close to what they've created.

And this book joins my small collection of books on Coil, one of which (Man is the Animal vol. 3) I am honored to be a part of.

other Coil related books I own (Everything Keeps Dissolving, Man is the Animal: A Coil Zine - issue three, England's Hidden Reverse, Altered Balance, Twilight Language, and The Universe Is A Haunted House)

a featured quote from the small quotations book, Having Fun with Gods, included with the special edition

a photo of Jhonn featured in the book