Skinny Puppy: New album update 2011-08-31 by Trey STAFF | 37 Comments | Industrial Veterans Skinny Puppy, are set to release their 14th studio album, hanDover, on October 25th.
In addition to Ogre and cEvin Key, the album also features contributions from long-time collaborators Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall and Mark Walk.
Album Art: http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6241/albumartvo.jpg
hanDover Track List:
1) Ovirt
2) Cullorblind
3) Wavy
4) AshAs
5) Gambatte
6) Icktums
7) Point
8) Brownstone
9) Vyrisus
10) Village
11) NoiseX
Full Press Release:
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hanDover, centers not only on the unbridled greed of the world's financial organizations and the governments that enable them, but the climate of political impotence which makes people resign their fate, no matter how insidious the situation gets. In typical PUPPY form, hanDover finds the duo moving forward while still maintaining that sense of aural discovery that has been a hallmark of their 26-year career.
"It's definitely the overarching feel of 'bend over and take it,'" offers Ogre, only half-kidding about the album's theme. "I recently listened to the record and it's making even more sense to me. We're certainly experiencing the rape of mankind as the world's economies slide even further and the inability of people to look around them and see what's going on. You're starting to see a neo-feudalistic empire on the rise. People are getting so pissed off, they're turning on each other."
"I didn't want to write the record the same way as the previous ones," says Key about his m.o. on the first new PUPPY music since 2008's Mythmaker. "I wanted there to be fresh angles, both in the songwriting and the programming platforms. I was changing the whole element of myself just to see what would happen. In the end, I made something different, but it was still coming from me. I'm not interested in looking at my accomplishments and myself. Like any electronic music fan, I look at the big question: Where is it all going?"
Aided by longtime associates Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall and Mark Walk, Ogre and Key have delivered an album that mirrors today's cultural uncertainty. At its most jarring, hanDover feels like digital epilepsy, exchanging the band's predilection for opaque menace for a trembling, near spasmodic discomfort. The amphetamine glitch-worship on "Gambatte," and the mechanized percolating of "Icktums" (with the refrain of "Worship money, worship nothing") further emulates a societal framework that's got its foot on the gas pedal on the road toward extinction. Ogre's twisted fable, "Brownstone" is shored up with twitching synthetics reminiscent of an orgy of hospital equipment. "Village" is an indictment of financial institutions through the prism of the ignorant populace that let them get away with the ruin. ("We're all made to participate in it, so we're all in collusion," explains the singer. "It's your typical Ogre paranoid ditty, complete with tinfoil hat.") The seven-minute "NoiseX" weaves layers of programmed breakbeats into phase-shifted psychedelic vistas to simulate a supercomputer's ascension into purgatory. Ambience or attack-mode, you make the call.
When considering the amount of factors contributing to today's artist-hostile environment, one wonders why some people even bother to continue to make music. It seems Ogre and Key have far too many ideas ricocheting in their individual skulls to ever succumb to ennui or the entitlement groupthink of many of their colleagues. One of their albums was titled Ain't It Dead Yet: But after nearly three decades of service, 14 studio albums, a plethora of remixes and all the cartwheeling through a whole lot of psychic minefields, the answer is a resounding hell, no. Because SKINNY PUPPY is one beast that cannot be tethered.
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I had to change my undies.
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Woot.
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I do not think the world is yet ready for another SP album.
I really hope this is good.
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From the press release it sounds like they're moving in another direction and since the direction of their past few was only 3/3.5 territory, that can't be all bad -- hopefully.
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synthpop
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I stopped at Last Rights so I have no opinion of the last three.
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Really? The Process is still really good. The last two have some cool stuff on them and some questionable songs, too.
-- Synthpop --
God no... that's what the Ohgr releases are for.
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Haha, I'd cry if they released a synthpop record.
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Maybe this will be the record I can get into by them, but I highly doubt it.
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I never checked out this band. Where's a good place to start?
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--Maybe this will be the record I can get into by them, but I highly doubt it. --
What??? Which ones have you heard? Also, how's the Acumen Nation acquiring going?
--I never checked out this band. Where's a good place to start?--
If you want to jump in the deep end, start with their best album, Too Dark Park. If you want eased into it, try The Process
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I've been lucky enough to have a band mate who adores all the groups older work, I'd guess that anything from 1990 downward he has and loves. For me I can acknowledge that the group has talent and was a driving force for the scene, however I have never enjoyed Ogre's vocals.
As for the Acumen Nation I have The Fifth Column now, played a few tracks from it last night when I DJ'd and the people seemed to love it almost as much as I did.
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The Fifth Column is their best album, probably. It's definitely the best blend of all their influences. You need to check out their first two albums and their latest.
If you don't like Ogre's vocals, there's still a chance you'd like The Process because he dropped a lot of the effects on that album.
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I'll have to give it a try sometime then, everyone's always surprised when I tell them I can't get into Skinny Puppy AND Ministry.
The Fifth Column is definitely fun, "Parasite Mine" is such a strong second track.
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Agreed. Psycho the Rapist is like The Fifth Column on steroids.
You don't like Ministry either? Damn.
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Yeah I'm weird, I don't dislike them as much as SP but I still can't find an album of theirs to enjoy when listening from start to finish.
I really like what I've heard from that album, it's next on the list.
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I was just going to start getting into these guys.
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You don't like Ministry either? Damn. [2]
half of Mind contains some of my favorite songs ever.
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Well Acanthus if you ever decide to give them another try I rec you "In Case You Didn't Feel Like
Showing Up". It's a really well recorded live album that is also like a best of for their first few
albums. Live show with dueling drummers (not a drum machine) is pretty bad ass if you can get your
hands on the video.
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I always baffle people by not liking them, it's interesting though since it means my influences are even more removed than the normal industrial fans.
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nah, they can't be to every bodies liking. But your avatar with I don't like Ministry next to it is a little disconcerting. :^(
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Haha yeah I could see that, if it helps I like The Killing Joke???
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Where the Joker kills Robin, yah that was a great run.
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@Acanthus: If vocals are your issue, you should try Chemlab - Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar.
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Chemlab's not bad, never heard an album just random tracks.
Edit: I confess Omni I had to look that one up, seems I've neglected my Batman readings of late.
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Their only good one is the one I rec'd... I just need to make you a zip file of various bands.
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That'd be awesome, don't feel like you have to or anything though! I have a friend who was able to open/play with them when they went to Tulsa with 16 Volt years ago.
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That's cool. 16Volt is a decent band, but they're so hit-and-miss.
Edit: Is your registration e-mail correct?
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Indeed they are, I feel like I am looking into the wrong band half the time.
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Did you ever look into that new Left Spine Down album? Also, is your registration e-mail correct?
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It is sir, and no I haven't yet but I actually will go give it a listen now.
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awesome news!
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Finally! Can't wait to hear this
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Skinny Puppy already released a synthpop record, it was called Remission.
Really excited about this new one!
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Yeah so this leaked guys
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I've had it for weeks. Underwhelming.
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Not entirely surprised. But still a shame.
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