Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold & Manipulate
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Free Music Review: Breakdown amidst the mixtures of Skinny Puppy
Hit: 5 Stars
Although I am a huge fan of All of SP's music, as far as I am concerned nothing that they have done compares to Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, even though Vivisect VI ans Too Park Park are also great great albums in their own rights. If you are thinking of buying their reunion album, or better yet catching one of their few US concerts, and want to see just how far they have evolved, by all means get this album now! Of course, CF&M represents Skinny Puppy in their gloomiest and darkest era, and this is truly a beutifully punishing album to listen to. Tracks like Shadow Cast, Draining Faces and the Mourn meld gothic horror, ingenious sampling, with industrial percussion like no other band ever has, :wumpscut: probably coming the closest on Eevil Young Flesh. On other tracks such as Addiction and deep down Trauma Hounds, cEVIN and Goettel manage to meld seamlessly catchy, even dancy beats with the menacing lyrics provided by Ogre, which as always have something to say about the ills of contemporary society, without sounding preachy or pretentious. And who said Industrial music couldn't be a vehicle for social change! Cleanse Fold and Manipulate sounds as fresh and original as any Industrial music out today, being far more original and inventive too, and is an essential album for any fan of industrial music, ebm or darkwave. Brap On!
Free Music Review: Their First Awesome CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
For the first few years in their career, Skinny Puppy released some fine material in the Industrial/EBM movement that was just getting bigger and bigger. Yet for me, Manipulate is the first SP album that began to prove that the band was here to stay. Manipulate easily proved that SP could do more things with loops, beats, and synths. It proved that they were evolving as a tight unit and had plenty to say to the masses.
This would be their first great socio-political conscious record played to a moody, creepy background. Issues such as political agendas (Trauma Hounds) and abortion (First Aid) are fiercely played and sung. Mention about people's rights and countless deaths, among other problematic realities, run throughout the album. Sampling in this album is also better than on previous releases.
First time I bought this cd, it crept me out mainly because the music and lyrics were so chilling. It also got me hooked for more and I haven't stopped listening to it since. Draining Faces and Addiction are among the best, not to mention the very chilling ender, Anger / Epilogue. Manipulate makes a fine first impression to an SP newcomer and shows how important they are in the Industrial/EBM music.
Free Music Review: Start here
Hit: 5 Stars
I would recomend the new comer to Skinny Puppy should start thier new long road ;) with Cleanse Fold and Manipulate. This album is a short album nevertheless a romp through the early/middle of thier evolution. This album would ready someone for "Too Dark Park" and for "Bites" two albums more often reguarded as thier best (which maybe true) but are in need of greater patience to absorb.This more so then other Puppy albums gives you a mid-tempo dark blast of pulsing beats and loops, takeing off right where Bites left off but adding to Skinny Puppy's allover accesability. Still for your money you get 3 genious(absoloutely awesome!) dance hits First Aid, Addiction and Deep Down Trauma Hounds they alone being worth admission yet still several excellent noise scapes that give mainstream music listeners an insight to the underworld of noise and anti-music and is a Skinny Puppy trademark. Such musical psychedellia can be SO sumptuously profound with emotional articulation.
Welcome to Skinny Puppy... if you dont like them right off they will scare you and irratate you untill you love them for thier perfect genious!
Free Music Review: Not The Best Choice For Newcomers
Hit: 5 Stars
It's come to my attention from a Wikipedia article about the lawyer, Jack Thompson(He's a lawyer who is trying to fight against the videogame industry and wants to censor violent videogames), that an Amazon reviewer gave his book a 5 star rating during what JT called a bookstorming and that review was removed (They filled up the book with negative tags, photoshopped pictures, and 1 star reviews). The positive review was by a user called BushSupporter who appears to be against Skinny Puppy as well as videogames. Anyway, if you're here because you hate Jack Thompson and are curious about the band you may want to skip this CD unless you're already into harsh Industrial music. Don't get me wrong. It's an awesome piece of work but I don't feel it's going to appeal to first timers. Skinny Puppy made later releases that are a lot easier to swallow for first time listeners. Those releases are The Greater Wrong of the Right, The Process, and Rabies. Rabies being the least accessible of those three but it still has Al Jourgensen's guitars (the vocalist and guitar player from Ministry).Free Music Review: Wow...just...wow
Hit: 5 Stars
It took me a while to catch on to the brilliance that is Skinny Puppy but once my ears opened up, I was taken for a ride. This album is great, from start to finish, not a filler or mediocre track in between.
First Aid starts out with a heavy pounding beat and the goth-y huffs of a choir before Ogre stars in with his evil snarls.
Having added Dwayne as a full member on this release only adds to its stellar production quality. The whole album conjures up dark misty carnival atmosphere where chaos waits at every turn.
A bit of trivia - the track The Mourn (most spookey carnival-esque track here) was written after the boys watched Flowers Of Flesh & Blood and thought it was a real snuff film.
The versions of Addiction & Deep Down Trauma Hounds sound much better here than on Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse. I recommend this release for anyone looking to get into Puppy. This one will throw you face first into their dark world - a place you may not want to leave after visiting.