Artist: Recoil
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Subhuman
Year: 2007
Tracks: 7
Strange Hours
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Liquid
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Jezebel
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Unsound Methods
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Stalker
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Drifting
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Faith Healer
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Bloodline
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Hydrology Plus 1 + 2
Year: 1989
Tracks: 5
After officially rending from Depeche Mode in 1995, longtime member Alan Wilder finally went ahead with his side project Recoil. Wilder started Recoil in 1985, simply efforts were lukewarm due to his responsibilities with DM. But scorn such conflicts of interest, Recoil issued a fructify of early demos entitled 1 + 2, which coincided with the release of DM's 1986 album Smutty Celebration. As the '80s were coming to a close, Wilder and his original bandmates were becoming international superstars with the chart-topping success of 1987's Music for the Masses and 1990's Debaucher. Subsequent Recoil EP releases such as 1988's Hydrology and 1991's Bloodline were naturally lost in the background of events. In 1997 Wilder was impertinently ready for Recoil, next up with the project's first album, Mentally ill Methods. This album, a purgative set up of techno-bombastic slews, brought in a wide reach of artists such as spoken word fresh girlfriend Maggie Estep, Songs of Faith and Devotion session vocalists Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) and Hildia Cambell, and Recoil mainstay Siobhan Lynch. Unsound Methods was critically tagged as "difficult" and "dark," merely it didn't cark Wilder. Certainly that was the reaction he was searching for. Three age later, his cunning melodious whodunit continued on Liquid. After a log hiatus, Wilder revived the Recoil name in 2007 with the album Subhuman.
