content: The Ape of Naples is a brilliant eulogy for the too-early-passed John Balance, the Coil album to cap the 25 or so years that Balance and Peter Christopherson made beautiful (or noisy, or dangerous) music together. Mostly a quiet, meditative affair, it's an album that sums up the group's career nicely, alternately revisiting the past with takes on "Teenage Lightning" and "Amethyst Deceivers" and acknowledging the presence (closer "Going Up" is the perfect song for Balance's passage from this plane to the next). The circumstances of Balance's death were regrettable -- still, his musical career speaks for itself. The Ape of Naples is his tribute. Rest in Peace, John.