five minutes in or 20 minutes in but you suddenly get this feeling, the hairs on the back of your neck, and you'd realise that you'd had some sort of temporal slip. We fine-tuned, well, filters and oscillators and stuff, to try and maximise this effect. It was that we were after with simple tones – somehow you could slip through. When Time Machines was first released, the group was initially very conscious that it should not be labeled as a Coil album due to how abstract and different it was compared to previous Coil albums. However, the group later tended towards regarding Time Machines a part of the Coil catalog; this led the 2000 follow-up live album Coil Presents Time Machines to be released as a Coil album. Legacy A five-disc Time Machines box set was announced in 1998, but never developed. A two-disc version was announced in January 2006 as a future release, but this was never expanded on either, although an album by Peter Christopherson, called Time Machines II, was released posthumously. In retrospect, Drew McDowall has remarked that "[p]eople tell me how much of an impact it had on them – which is always pretty surprising." In 2018, surviving member Drew McDowall collaborated with British visual artist Florence To to perform an updated audio-visual version of the entire album in selected venues and festivals around the world. Reception Sean Cooper of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars and described it as "[e]njoyable, if a mite limited in scope." Record distributor Boomkat praised the album upon its re-release, calling it a "now-classic chemical songbook". Track listing Personnel According to AllMusic: Peter Christopherson – performer John Balance – performer Drew McDowall – performer References External links Time Machines at Brainwashed Time Machines website stickers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 "Persistence Is All" badge See also Harmine DOET/hecate 5-MeO-DMT Psilocybin 1998 albums Coil (band) albums Drone music albums by English artists Psychedelic drug research