In October, Matmos’ Drew Daniel is releasing his latest album as the Soft Pink Truth, Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?. But before that, he’s putting out a mini-album called Was It Ever Real? this Friday, which somewhat confusingly features the title track to his forthcoming album (which isn’t on Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?). Less confusingly, it also includes a cover of Coil’s “The Anal Staircase,” which Daniel has been performing live for a while now. Today, the Soft Pink Truth is sharing the studio version of that cover, and Daniel had some stuff to say about the song and its accompanying video: