Behind The Artworks: Final Coil - 1994 (2026)

To fit the concept of the album, I came up with the idea of a collage. It reminded me of the tapes I used to make when I first started creating music – in a band called Endora, as well as any number of punk albums I’ve bought over the years. Jola and Rich loved the idea and so, one evening, Jola and I dug out every magazine and every little thing we could find from the band’s past. We raided the attic, the garage, the studio, and we found so much stuff – cassette tapes, old posters, magazines, CDs, hand-written lyrics, old photos – it was really cool.    

Jola then photographed everything individually, stripped out the background and then put it all together in Photoshop, choosing the pieces that had maximum visual impact. I think she did a fantastic job (as she always does) and the end result looks really cool.    

For the titles, I simply wrote the track names on masking tape and stuck it to my effect board flight case. Jola then lit and photographed that for the back cover. Last but not least, we all chose old photos for the inlay – again, sometimes it’s nice to look back to when you first started out, and it definitely lit something in us.     

To really double down on the 90s vibe, we decided to do a cassette edition where the cassette is in clear fluorescent purple plastic (with the hand-written titles custom printed on the shell), and the cover is in fluorescent yellow. Anyone who bought the self-titled Alice in Chains album (OK, that was 1996, but who’s counting?) will know it originally came in the same colour scheme, and it just looked so cool. Also, and around the same time, Kiss released a best of in a similarly coloured case – you can’t really argue with such antecedents!    

So, yeah – every element is a deliberate nod to the stuff we loved as teenagers, and we really hope that people dig the little details that make this release what it is.

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