Sara Dale's Sensual Massage CD

In 1992, during the phase of their career where ambient house and saucer-eyed electronica were amongst their greatest inspirations, Coil wrote and recorded a soundtrack to an obscure, VHS-only erotic film, Sara Dale's Sensual Massage. Positive, colourful, synthesizer-laden and occasionally exotic, the soundtrack drew more deeply on '90s ambient and new age house than almost anything else they recorded. Here the soundtrack is finally given the release it deserved, alongside a bunch of other hard-to-find, more experimental cuts taken from rare vinyl or CD releases recorded during the same period. These, too, are superb, though noticeably darker and more metallic in tone.