Released June 25, 1987 Length 42:13 Artist Skinny Puppy Label Capitol Records | Recorded 1987, Vancouver Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
(1987) VIVIsectVI
(1988) Release date 25 June 1987 Producers Dave Ogilvie, cEvin Key | |
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Genres Industrial music, Electro-industrial, Synthpop, Post-industrial music, Dark ambient Similar Skinny Puppy albums, Industrial music albums | ||
Skinny puppy cleanse fold and manipulate full album 1987
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate is the third studio album by Canadian electro-industrial group Skinny Puppy. The album was released in 1987 and was supported by a single, "Addiction". The song "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" was used as a promotional single. The album was further supported by the Head Trauma tour, which spanned across North America and Europe. Ain't it Dead Yet?, a recording from the tour of the group performing in Toronto, Canada, was released on video in 1989 and CD in 1991.
Contents
Music
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate explores a number of different topic concerning medicine, society, and politics. The Song "First Aid" addresses what was the growing AIDS epidemic of the Eighties, while "Second Tooth" concerns with the struggles faced by Vietnam War veterans, namely post-traumatic stress. The song "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" was written following a string of teenage suicides in the United States. Nivek Ogre, the group's vocalist and songwriter, said of the suicides:
It seemed very scary to me that all these kids had such a bleak prospect on their future. I was on the tail-end of the generation that grew up with Walt Disney and Fantasia and Bambi and all those things that were so beautiful and important to grow up with. You need those things to perpetuate [yourself] through the years when you become cynical, instead kids are just growing up into this dark world.
Other songs on the album pay homage to horror films. The song "The Mourn" is based on the Japanese extreme horror movie Flower of Flesh and Blood from the Guinea Pig film series. According to the group, the film was the closest they had ever come to seeing what they felt was a real snuff movie. Footage from the film has since been used in their live shows.
Critical reception
Tim DiGravina of Allmusic said the album was "hard to recommend". 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. 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.
Track listing
All information from Allmusic.
All music composed by Skinny Puppy.
Personnel
All information from Allmusic.
Musicians
Production
Songs
1First Aid4:30
2Addiction6:03
3Shadow Cast4:18