{"product_id":"011586674592","title":"Coil: Queens Of The Circulating Library - Clear (Vinyl LP)","description":"Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the distilled duo of Thighpaulsandra and John Balance, the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural, channeling the spirit of levitational minimalism pioneered by La Monte Young. Touted as the first part in a continually mutating series of circulating musickal compositions upon it's initial release in 2000, the album remains a compelling case study in Coil's exceptional capacity for mutation and extremes.The theatrical introductory monologue delivered by Thighpaulsandra's mother - a career opera singer, in her 80's at the time of recording - sets the stage for a grandiose ascension. Written by Balance, the text is declamatory but dreamlike, refracted through megaphone echo: Return the book of knowledge \/ Return the marble index \/ File under Paradox \/ The forest is a college, each tree a university. As her voice fades, the lulling synthetic infinity deepens, congealing into transient crests of volume and haze, like slow-motion surf misting in moonlight. Thighpaulsandra describes their aesthetic intention as a bliss out, static but shape-shifting, an amniotic drift towards an eternal vanishing point. A supreme sonic embodiment of the slogan on the sleeve of Time Machines, two years prior: Persistence is all.  Queens of the Circulating Library (Side A), Queens of the Circulating Library (Side B)","brand":"Dais","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44066182988066,"sku":"011586674592","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2231\/7305\/products\/4147565-2910112_63bfe96e-e4d7-4123-9122-dffdad8d58f5.jpg?v=1705235670","url":"https:\/\/www.besvinyl.com\/products\/011586674592","provider":"besvinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}