Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
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Artist: Skinny PuppyEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Nettwerk Records
Soundtracks:
- Convulssion
- Tormentor
- Spasmolytic
- Rash Reflection
- Nature's Revenge
- Shore Lined Poison
- Grave Wisdom
- T. F. W. O.
- Morpheus Laughing
- Reclamation
Free Music Notes for Too Dark Park
Free Music Review: Few Industrial Albums Matter As Much As This One!
Hit: 5 Stars
Skinny Puppy first blew my senses back in the mid 80's at a time when keyboards ruled the Pop Rock field. What most bands like Erasure and Depeche Mode did with Electronic music eventually lead to its downfall as a musical force in my opinion. Few artists tried to use the technology pioneered by artists such as Brian Eno to maximize its full potential. The main reason traditional Rock rose to the heights that it did was mainly due to musicians stretching the guitars capacity of sound to its fullest regardless of the directions they took it in. Few in the Electronic or Industrial scene did the same with the keyboard or electronic music.
Skinny Puppy are the exception to the above mentioned statement. Its hard to understand their impact on this genre without realizing what was around at the time of their inception. Their first release, 'Back And Forth', in 1983 was a complete rejection of the electronic music that had been made so far and sought to wrestle the keyboard back from cheese ball bands and artists such as Gary Numan, Naked Eyes and yes, even early Ministry who used it only as filler in the disgusting Pop trash they were creating for the masses. They continued to toil away in relative obscurity for the next four to five years helping to build a musical movement shaped largely by them and even surpassed with suprising ease.
Their first crowning achievement in album form was 'VIVIsectVI' in 1988. It was a landmark release that challenged even their loyal fans with its disjointed sounds and textures of pain, death and even renewal while garnering them new fans at the same time. The album 'Rabies' followed and actually seemed like a bit of a step backward in comparison. It was straight ahead music that relied too heavily on guitar riffs and more than likely made Alien Jourgensen of Ministry finally realize the direction he wanted to go in permanently. For many fans 'Rabies' was satisfying on the surface but deep down many of us knew they were capable of so much more.
'Too Dark Park' is the album that WAS so much more. Quite simply it is the finest album of its genre. Every track assaults the senses while exciting them at the same time. There is nothing easy about listening to this album and its one of the few released in music history that demanded the listener sit down, shut up and pay attention completely. There is simply too much going on for a casual listener of music. 'Too Dark Park' crackles with sound textures and landscapes that threaten to overwhelm the mind but at its core there is a sense of melody and order that eventually takes over after repeated listens. I was in an airport waiting to fly to Texas a few days after it came out and listening to it for the seventh or eighth time when it completely took me over. the bustle and noise of the people around me melted away, I felt numb, and to this day its hard not to listen to it without getting chills at various points. I have close to 600 CD's in my collection with many different categories represented yet this album still ranks among the top five of all that I own or owned.
You don't have to like Industrial, Goth or Electronic music as a whole or even partly to appreciate what this band has achieved with 'Too Dark Park' and you could even get by with owning this album alone to represent its genre in your collection if you choose to. To most Industrial fans its the Dark Side Of The Moon, if you will, of the entire Industrial movement and nothing before or after it has come close. If you don't LISTEN to music intently then get back to your Soft Cell and A-Ha albums and leave this one be, however, if you are a varied soul with wild tastes and can appreciate masterpieces regardless of the avenue of music they come from then I highly recommend it.
Stand out tracks:
Tormentor
Shore Lined Poison
Spasmolytic
Morpheus
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