Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the
present-tense as events unfold across their twenty-year history. Between 1983 and 2004 the
legendary British experimental band Coil established themselves as shape-shifting doyens of
esoteric music whose influence has grown spectacularly in the years since their untimely end.
With music that could be dark queer and difficult but often retained a warped pop
sensibility Coil’s albums were multi-faceted repositories of esoteric knowledge lysergic
wisdom and acerbic humor. In Everything Keeps Dissolving core members John Balance and Peter
Christopherson tell Coil’s story in the present-tense and from their personal perspectives as
events unfold across their twenty-year history. Accompanied by their various collaborators
Coil describe the fertile eruption of ideas inspirations and stray tangents that informed
their lyrical and musical visions—as well as those dead paths and castoff concepts that didn’t
take root. No only a worm’s eye view of Coil these interviews provide insight into the late
twentieth century’s evolving British cultural underground as channeled through two of its most
astutely mercurial minds.
