Coil is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986. The band consists of singer/guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1990s with the singles "Walk on the Ocean," "All I Want,"...

 released in 1997. It is their fifth studio album, and the final one before the band broke up in 1998. As with previous albums, Coil was released under the Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 label and produced by Gavin MacKillop.

This album has been praised by some as the band's most mature album. It combines themes explored in all of their previous albums - including love, spirituality and the virtues of an uncomplicated life - and it continues the straightforward rock sound found in Dulcinea

Dulcinea (album)

Dulcinea is an album by Toad the Wet Sprocket released in 1994. It is their fourth studio album with Columbia Records and the follow-up to their popular album fear, which was released in 1991. Two songs from Dulcinea reached Top 40 designation on the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts: "Fall...

. One song from the album hit the Billboard Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock Charts, "Come Down," and the single "Crazy Life" explores the perceived injustices experienced by Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement . In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine...

. "Whatever I Fear" was also released as a single but failed to chart with poor backing from Columbia Records, thus in turn, the planned fourth single "Dam Would Break" was never released

Track listing

1. "Whatever I Fear" – 2:58
2. "Come Down" – 3:13
3. "Rings" – 2:53
4. "Dam Would Break" – 4:06
5. "Desire" – 3:38
6. "Don't Fade" – 4:12
7. "Little Man Big Man" – 4:01
8. "Throw It All Away" – 3:03
9. "Amnesia" – 4:22
10. "Little Buddha" – 3:43
11. "Crazy Life" – 4:07
12. "All Things In Time" – 3:44
13. "Silo Lullaby" (Japan Bonus Track)

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 bands "Dulcinea" album, it was featured on the 1995 Soundtrack to the film "Empire Records" but the band felt it deserved a place on a Toad album and fit this albums themes, so they added a new organ track and cut new background vocals and had Tom Lord Alge do a new mix. the into fade in was cut short and the BPM was slightly punshed up to make the song slightly faster, and this has led many fans to believe it's 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