Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
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| Studio album by Skinny Puppy | ||||
| Released | June 25, 1987 | |||
| Recorded | 1987, Vancouver | |||
| Genre | Post-industrial, electro-industrial, dark ambient, synthpop | |||
| Length | 42:13 | |||
| Label | Nettwerk | |||
| Producer | Dave Ogilvie, cEvin Key[1] | |||
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Cleanse Fold and Manipulate is the third studio album by electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy. It was released in 1987.[2]
Contents
Critical reception
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| Allmusic |   [3] |
Tim DiGravina of Allmusic said the album was "hard to recommend".[4] He went on to say while it did contain one of the band's best songs, "Deep Down Trauma Hounds", much of the album was ambient and fragmentary.[4] Still, he added, fans of industrial music will appreciate the album's formidable beats and coarse sound samples that seem to be generated from warping the sounds of heavy machinery. Perhaps more than other any place in Skinny Puppy's discography, Ogre's vocals work like spoken-word stream-of-conscious dementia, with more emphasis on evil tones than on any relation to their music. He concluded by saying the album was primarily recommendable to die hard fans.[4]
Track listing
All information from Allmusic.[1]
All music composed by Skinny Puppy.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "First Aid" | 4:29 |
| 2. | "Addiction" | 6:01 |
| 3. | "Shadow Cast" | 4:18 |
| 4. | "Draining Faces" | 5:12 |
| 5. | "The Mourn" | 2:41 |
| 6. | "Second Tooth" | 4:06 |
| 7. | "Tear or Beat" | 4:42 |
| 8. | "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" | 4:41 |
| 9. | "Anger" | 4:53 |
| 10. | "Epilogue" | 1:10 |
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Total length:
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42:13 | |
Notes
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In response to the cover's source image by Gilmore: "It is an image from the original 1960's movie of Village Of The Damned. There is a little tongue-in-cheek history behind using that image as the manager for Images In Vogue, a band that C. Key used to be in before Skinny Puppy, was a former child model from England and had a role in the movie. But the face on the cover was another child actor from the movie."
The song "The Mourn" is based on the extreme horror Guinea Pig film Flower of Flesh and Blood, and when it was written, they thought it was real. Footage from the movie has since been used in their live shows.
"Draining Faces" was featured on The Blair Witch Project soundtrack.
Personnel
All information from Allmusic.[1]
Musicians
- Nivek Ogre – voices, lyrics, objects, audio sculpture
- cEvin Key – synthesizers, guitar, drums, bass, voices, lyrics, sampling, sequencing, sounds, objects, radio, tapes, sequencers
- Dwayne Goettel – synthesizers, guitar, drums, background vocals sampling, tape, sequencing, radio, sequencers
- Peter Rave – guitar
Production
- Producers – cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
- Engineers – cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
- Mastering – Pete Norman
- Cover artwork – Steven R. Gilmore
