The Coiled One

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The Coiled One
Spahn Ranch - The Coiled One.jpg
Studio album by
Spahn Ranch
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1995 (1995-09-12) [1] [2]
RecordedNovember 1994 (1994-11) – March 1993 (1993-03)
StudioJLab Studio
(Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Length42:44
Label Cleopatra
Producer
Spahn Ranch chronology
Breath and Taxes
(1994)		The Coiled One
(1995)		 In Parts Assembled Solely
(1996)
Alternative cover
Spahn Ranch - The Coiled One (Alternate).jpg
Repress cover

The Coiled One is the second studio album by American electro-industrial group Spahn Ranch, released on September 12, 1995 by Cleopatra Records. [3] Founding member and chief composer Rob Morton departed from the band soon after recording sessions for the album had finished. [4] [5] The album's main musical theme is about religion. [6] The Coiled One was released on Bandcamp as a music download in 2011. [7]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Jon Worley of Aiding & Abetting called The Coiled One and said "the sound is much fuller and the beats omnipresent" [9] In his review for Allmusic, John Bush awarded The Coiled One three out of five stars and said "Electronic industrialists Spahn Ranch unmask the previously distorted vocals but continue their dance grooves." [8] Sonic Boom said the band "has taken the road paved by many industrial related artists lately and moved their music towards a more accessible audience without compromising one little bit on the sound quality or musical value." [10]

Critic Dave Thompson gave the album a mixed review, saying "tossing away much of their old sound (including the heavily processed vocals) for a sharp teclmo-industrial hybrid, the straight crossovers lack innovation." [11] Black Monday was also somewhat critical in their review and described the music as "nothing mediocre, mind you, just quality sameness or likeness, with a tinge of excitement burgeoning at the seems." [12]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Locusts"
3:58
2."Heretic's Fork"
4:42
3."Vortex"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
4:06
4."Infrastructure"
  • Maroulis
  • Green
  • Morton
4:32
5."Compression Test"
  • Maroulis
  • Green
4:18
6."Threnody"
  • Maroulis
  • Green
  • Morton
3:49
7."The Judas Cradle"
  • Maroulis
  • Green
3:56
8."Syndrome Exhibit"
  • Maroulis
  • Green
  • Morton
4:06
9."Babel"
  • Maroulis
  • Green
4:45
10."Static Detonates the Gel"Green3:33
11."Untitled" 0:58

Personnel

Adapted from the liner notes of The Coiled One. [13]

Spahn Ranch

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1995 Cleopatra CDCLEO 9645

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  4. ↑ Wilson, MacKenzie. "Spahn Ranch > Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  5. ↑ Fechner, Krista (September 1995). "Interview with Spahn Ranch". Sonic Boom. 3 (7). Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  6. ↑ Finkler, Ed (April 22, 1997). "Interview with Spahn Ranch". Sonic Boom. 5 (4). Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  7. ↑ Yücel, Ilker (April 3, 2018). "Cleopatra Records Re-Releasing 1997 Album From Spahn Ranch". ReGen. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  8. 1 2 Bush, John. "Spahn Ranch: The Coiled One > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  9. ↑ Worley, Jon (October 9, 1995). "Spahn Ranch: The Coiled One". Aiding & Abetting (89). Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  10. ↑ Christian, Chris (September 1995). "Spahn Ranche: The Coiled One". Sonic Boom. 3 (6). Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  11. ↑ Thompson, David (November 1, 2000). Spahn Ranch: The Coiled One. Alternative Rock: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion. Miller Freeman, Inc. pp. 648–649. ISBN   9780879306076 . Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  12. ↑ Dean Miles, Larry (1996). "Spahn Ranch: The Coiled One" (PDF). Black Monday (1): 2. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  13. ↑ Collateral Damage (booklet). Spahn Ranch. Marina Del Rey, California: Cleopatra Records. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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