Coil (album) explained

Coil
Type:Album
Artist:Toad the Wet Sprocket
Cover:Toad_the_Wet_Sprocket-Coil.jpg
Released:May 20, 1997
Recorded:Master Control in Los Angeles, California & Gopher Sound in Santa Barbara, California, 1996
Genre:
Length:44:13
Label:Columbia
Producer:Gavin MacKillop
Prev Title:In Light Syrup
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:P.S. (A Toad Retrospective)
Next Year:1999

Coil is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket released in 1997. This was the band's last album for 16 years, until 2013's New Constellation.[1]

As with previous albums, Coil was released under the Columbia Records label and produced by Gavin MacKillop.

Studio outtakes

  1. "This Is My Life"
  2. "Hey Bulldog"
  3. "Comes A Time (Band Version)"
  4. "Comes A Time (Acoustic)"
  5. "Don't Know Me"
  6. "Acid"
  7. "Won't Let It"

According to Glen Phillips, the version of "Crazy Life" on Coil was recorded in 1994 during the sessions for the band's Dulcinea album. It was featured on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Empire Records but the band felt it deserved a place on a Toad album and fit this album's themes, so they added a new organ track and cut new background vocals and had Tom Lord-Alge do a new mix. The intro fade-in was cut short and the BPMs were pushed up to make the song slightly faster. This has led many fans to believe it is a completely different recording, despite the credits in the liner notes pointing to different studios and engineers for the track which match the Dulcinea sessions.

Charts

Chart (1997(Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[2] 199
Billboard 20019[3]

Notes and References

  1. Blistein. Jon. 2013-06-05. Song Premiere: Toad the Wet Sprocket Find a 'New Constellation'. 2021-06-14. Rolling Stone. en-US.
  2. Web site: Toad the Wet Sprocket ARIA Chart History complete to 2024. ARIA. Imgur.com. July 26, 2024. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  3. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Billboard 200. 2021-06-14. Billboard.