Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
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Free Music Review: ummm what?
Hit: 5 Stars
So ok..one might get made fun of for saying in front of puppy fans but I really enjoy nine inch nails. I loved the different sounds, and some of the synthy stuff. So I decided to see what else in the genre was like this (slowly I have begun the journey into better music, I realize the error of my ways by enjoying bands like linkin park and whatnot). So I read around on amazon and other sites about what is the best to get, so many people refered me to skinny puppy, and other industrial bands, needless to say I began listening to other industrial bands. Rammstein, KMFDM, and some of the reznor inspired manson stuff (antichrist superstar) and whenever I would look for more, one band would always show up on the recomend list, and that band would be skinny puppy.
So I decided, hey why not.. they inspired NIN so they cannot be that bad, so I gave all their new CD's a new try... and it was not really my thing, and many fans told me to go with the older stuff like VIVIsectVI and too dark park. I eventually found some copys of both and took a listen... boy was I in for a suprise
First thing you will notice, if you listen to much modern music you will notice that it sounds very old(that might be all the synths (kind of like how pretty hate machine sounds kinda old) , not the bad old, just something that is old that aged very well. Like nothing you have ever heard. From the title song convulssion you are confused, and scared. Where are the melodys? Where is the chourus? Where is the singing... and most off... when does the music begin? If you are anything like me you will instantly skip to the next track, and then the next one, untill you realize that most of the CD is like that... this is normal I have come to find out... i have come to realize that this is getting the "verse-bridge-chourous-verse" style song you have come to love completly out of your head, its like the first time you heard spoken word poetry, and you realize that there is more than just rhyming poetry, this music is the same way. Stick with it though, i cannot stress it enough. Sit down and struggle through listening to the entire CD. there will be moments where you will want to turn it off and listen to "normal music" but dont. After you get done listening to it... give it a couple of days, and try it again. Most likely you will start to notice riffs and melodys and actual music.
Songs like "grave wisdom" and "T.F.W.O" will start to sound listenable now dont get me wrong, i still dont get what the artist is trying to say, and what he means half of the time, because its so random, and its not glaringly obvious what he is trying to say.
Dont get me wrong this CD isint for everyday listening, and I still think its the most F#&$!ed up CD i have ever heard. However its great for expanding your mind, and teaching you that there is other music out there. Even if the music is not your cup of tea (which is most people) its good to appreciate all different types of music.
Free Music Review: blistering
Hit: 5 Stars
from the title, the art work and just the promise of a skinny puppy album in itself, you can tell that this is going to be something different. this album is album is essentiall a raw untamed wave of sheer terror splintered by stabs of remorse. oghr sprays the listener with perplexing and certainly terrifying rants and deconstructed lyrics. it is hard to say what youre gonna get from this if you pick up a copy, but the album certainly takes you to the darkest parts of your mind and to some extent does bring you crashing back to the surface again. convulsion starts the proceedings nicely warming the listener up for what is to come; then this shifts into tormentor, a progressive rythmic assault, laden with horror and fear but it doesnt lay it on nearly as thick as the all out shredded nerve endings experience that spasmolytic gives the listener, beserk, uncontrolled, insane. rash reflection calms down a little bit, with its curious lyrical content leading into the calm amongst the storm, natures revenge, relaxed yet still brooding with an underlying intensity waiting to errupt. Then, with a wall of distorted noise beats and yelling shore line poison pummels the senses delivering a fragmented, wonderous scape of samples, confusion and melody;possibly my favourite track. next is grave wisdom, appearing more melodic, and structured but abusive lyrics and anger are locked firmly into place. and then.....well, possibly the most surreal of the album, t.f.w.o. or totally fcuking weirded out, is just what it says on the can, the almost humerous premise sets it apart, but the song itself is a breezeblock of pure chaos, splicing brisk glimpses of guitars amongst the bouncing synths and strange sounds, it leaves you perplexed moving swiftly into morpheus laughing, perhaps a more atmospheric piece than seen in this album, but keeps the anger storming right to the end with its sinister tone and malevolant rythm. the album closes with reclamation an instrumental soundscape, allowing time for reflection and to calm the hell down!!!
overall this is undoubtably a classic, a masterpiece. a hellish journey through the mindset of one of the greatest bands ever. its easy to listen to due to its shorter running time of half an hour but this doesnt dent is impact, or its power. for a newcomer, interseted in the band, im not sure whether to reccomend this first, possibly greater wrong of the right? quite a confortable and accessible album, while it doesnt bear the power of this and other early classics i found it a good place to start and is still a very good album. but if you start with this then , cool : )
Free Music Review: Enter the Land of Shadows
Hit: 5 Stars
Coming after the release of their album Rabies, which was was co-produced by Al Jourgensen, Too Dark Park represents a return to the more starkly evanescent feel of their earlier work such as Mind the Perpetural Intercourse and VivViSect VI. Released at a time when other industrial acts like Ministry, Frontline Assembly and KMFDM were moving towards a more industrialmetal feel, Skinny Puppy showed in this album that the more complex synth-based arrangements and distorted vocals still had much to offer. Additionally, in Too Dark Park, Ogre continued to use industrial music as a vehicle for the expression of social and political issiues, particularly the continuing destruction of the environment and our treatment of other forms of life. Although such subject matter has been a ubiquitous part of SP's music since the beginning, Too Dark Park seems to be their most overt socially conscious release, as tracks such as Nature's Revenge, Shoreline Poison, Grave Wisdom and Morpheus Laughing Attest. In other tracks such as Spasmolytic and T.F.W.O. the intensity of Rabies is still evident and works well to beautifully compliment the more brooding soundscapes created in Rash Reflection and Nature's Revenge .
Too Dark Park is a an album that has it all, whether ones loves hard driving ebm or the nightmare world of meandering terror beats. Like most of SP's releases this album is as fresh now as it was the day it was released, and that is saying alot considering just how much industiral music has evolved and become so driven by computer sampling and technology. Anyone who has been lucky enough to see SP live knows what I am talking about, as they are one industrial band that were musicians first and foremost, rather than just a bunch of guys pressing buttons on an iMac. Althouh there are some great acts out there now, few bands will ever equal the intensity and raw emotion that Skinny Puppy could evoke in an audience or the eerie ambience created when listening to on of their albums at 2:30 in the morning. For those not familiar with Skinny Puppy this would be a great album to start with, as it has elements of all their previous work, and shouldn't be neglected.
Brap On!
Free Music Review: Ahead of its time
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard this album in the early 1990s, just as I was getting into industrial music. The first words that came to mind were dischordant, grating, and violent. I liked it for those reasons (have always liked dark music), but the more I listened to it, the more I noticed something else about it. Buried in the layers of samples, synths, and distorted vocals was a clear harmony. And it wasn't simplistic, sequenced stuff like you might expect from a band relying heavily on machines; it was a fairly complicated performance, with flowing basslines and melodic waveforms. I don't know if Skinny Puppy was trying for that, or if it was just a result of mixing together so many electronic sounds, but it worked. Now when I think of Too Dark Park, I think of words like mature, complicated, and progressive. This was definitely a step in a new direction for electronic music, and Puppy carried it even further with their next album Last Rights, which was even harder to figure out at first. It would have been interesting to see where cEvin Key and Dwayne Goettel would've taken this genre, but with Dwayne's death in 1995, we will never know. All we are left with is the amazing body of work that Skinny Puppy produced, far ahead of its time, which will no doubt go down in history as one of the most impressive and influential collections of the 20th century. Although Too Dark Park doesn't quite illustrate Puppy's overall career, which is perhaps better summed up by albums like Vivisect IV and Cleanse, Fold, and Manipulate, I think it shows the direction they were headed. Anyone with even a slight interest in electronica, techno -- or even Mozart or Coltrane for that matter -- should give this record a listening. Just remember to hear the music within the noise. It's there.Free Music Review: Metallic Hell
Hit: 5 Stars
Skinny Puppy are practically legends in the "Industrial" music genre along with Ministry. And when it comes down to a pure definition of "Industrial music," I always tend to think of Skinny Puppy as fitting that mold. Of course, Skinny Puppy has always had more of a sense for the "theatrical" than most other Industrial acts, which in return spawned the Marilyn Manson's of today. If you don't believe me, then check out Marilyn's stilts the next time you are at one of his shows. Musically, Skinny Puppy differs from any other Industrial band I have ever heard. And yeah, they use a lot of synths and drum machines, but it's the way that they use them that makes them unique and experimental. The soundscapes on this record are dark and metallic. The theme of this record revolves around drug addiction, and the songs on this record take you within the deepest, darkest depths of an addict's tortured psyche. Orge has a very demonic sounding voice, yet it is also very mechanical and there is even a hint of vulnerability underneath the surface. This is pretty brutal music. It is very different from the almost electro Goth sounding new wave music that Industrial is known for today. The lyrics seem like they were written during a drug induced haze, so they are really long, stream of consciousness type of rants. It adds to the schizophrenic effect of the music nicely.
Overall, this is a classic album. A must buy for anyone who is even remotely interested in the genre of "Industrial" music.