Skinny Puppy - cleanse fold and manipulate Reviews
Product: Skinny Puppy - cleanse fold and manipulate
From: Jenny Burns
Date: Saturday 04 January, 2003
Review:
What I loved about Skinny Puppy was two things their music and what they set out to do on their terms. Their music on this album has it all as they really started to expand - there is the usual, the extremely dense backing tracks, loads of samples and growling electronically-distorted vocals. Does that not sound like the format for so many bands that became household names over the past decade?
They get their points across with the harsh lyrics which are hammered out with blunt, punctuating beats. Skinny Puppy's best tracks focus on specific themes. On this album "The Mourn" addresses medical experimentation - no doubt one of their biggest themes. "Second Tooth" deals with military intervention. The most familiar is "deep down Trauma Hounds" - the underground dance-floor hit which was about destruction, both mental and environmental. Those themes haven't changed in this world have they! The Puppies weren't shy about speaking their mind - which sadly had them missed by many people until later in life - I would strongly suggest if you don't have this album get it now while you can!
This album features a fairly subtle division in the middle - ideal so as not be oversaturated in their not so subtle world! The first half consists of slightly-faster-than-dirge monuments to decay, while the second half serenades decay with brutal, monolithic dance beats. Those dance beats are just wonderful I can still remember swaying to them and losing myself in their world. I remember they promoted this album with an eyeball paperweight - an eyeball to your soul? - these beats will get you there - check them out!<p>
[5 of 5 Stars!]
