The Soft Pink Truth - "The Anal Staircase" (coil cover) - official music video

Listen to more from The Soft Pink Truth's Was It Ever Real mini-album:
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Drew Daniel: electronics, voice, keys, mix
M.C. Schmidt: percussion
Tripp Trapp Trull: saxophone, trumpet, trombone
"The Anal Staircase" was originally written by Coil (John Balance, Peter "Sleazy" Cristopherson, Stephen Thrower) and is dedicated to them. Persistence is all.
Video by Fletcher Pratt
Was It Ever Real? Is a super juicy, super limited CD and cassette-only release from The Soft Pink Truth, otherwise known as Drew Daniel, one-half of the iconic experimental electronic duo Matmos. This limited mini-album (a harbinger of where The Soft Pink Truth is headed) is part of Thrill Jockey's 30th anniversary special limited releases. Four new songs kick off where Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? left us, hitting us with the aching vocals and throbbing beats of the Dark Room Mix of "Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?", a space age, super sexy, nearly 8-min banger. The EP also features a cover of Coil’s immortal queer classic “The Anal Staircase”, reinterpreted here with slinky hi-hats, a horn section and psychedelic vocal treatments. The closing title track is a slow-burning post-soul instrumental number with twanging lead guitar from Acetone’s Mark Lightcap and harpsichord by Tom Boram. The entire mini-album moves the listener across the genres of disco, minimalism, ambient, and jazz, sliding onto and off of the dancefloor.
Crossfading from hedonism to reverie as it remembers past pleasures and imagines a future yet to come, the EP is also a noticeably social affair, with guest contributions from Matmos' M.C. Schmidt, Daniel Clarke, Id M Theft Able, Rose E. Kross, Tripp Trapp Trull, Koye Berry, and Andrew Bernstein (Horse Lords). The resulting music is not retro kitsch but pays homage to highly personal interpretations of disco such as Arthur Russell, Don Ray, Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, and Mandré, or the jazz funk of Creed Taylor and CTI Records. The cassette and CD both feature artwork by Robert Beatty (Oneohtrix Point Never, The Weeknd, The Flaming Lips).

[@nicolepertusati3393]

RESPECT The Soft Pink Truth / Coil & Thrill Jockey Records. Amitiés. NiVek-K 🎹🎹🎹

[@ultrayoshi9657]

The classic psychedelic post rock slash industrial rock group gets turned into a sinister dark house banger awsome

[@BestFriendsGang]

This is a bop.

[@JANXDPDX]

WHAT?! never knew this existed! fun effort and nod. I prefer the original, though

[@lemanchon]

🔥

[@Natsu-pv4jh]

Woah this is so trippy XD

[@redcell23]

Fucking hell! About time, Drew!

[@mcess]

I kind of love that all of the comments on this are porn spambots

[@ricardoportunhol3798]

Near to Trent Reznor and the soft and hard climax of Nine inch nails.😼

[@eclat4641]

I like the vibe .. but not into the beat .. maybe i should remove some connotations

[@BuroAan]

First few seconds sound interesting. And than the beat kicks in. Boring… check out the original!

[@anomalek]

I like the dancefloor vibes but I feel like the vocals are off - this song is intended to be extremely severe, a bit hysterical and deranged, and the tepid vocals really rob this of all its menace.

[@danielmiron7031]

It's called interpretation. But I find the massed whisperish vocals to be pretty menacing as is. Sometimes things take a few hearings.