Recoil: Liquid (2LP) [MUTE]

Why you'll love it

Former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder's fifth Recoil album is a concept record built around a near-death experience: in 1994 he and Hepzibah Sessa witnessed a Tornado jet crash in Scotland, and Liquid imagines the pilot's last moments. Diamanda Galás, the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet and spoken-word artists Nicole Blackman and Samantha Coerbell bring it to life.

This edition

• 2LP
• 10 tracks

About the album

Bookended by the two parts of "Black Box", it moves through gospel, blues and dark, cinematic electronics, as only Wilder can stitch them together.

Headphones, lights off.

Also at Kops: more Electronic

Tracklist

1. Black Box, Part 1
2. Want
3. Jezebel
4. Breath Control
5. Last Call For Liquid Courage
6. Strange Hours
7. Vertigen
8. Supreme
9. Chrome
10. Black Box, Part 2

On Mute, a reissue of the 2000 album.