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Skinny Puppy
Last Rights

Later-era Skinny Puppy. Which is OK, but it doesn't do it for me the way Bites- and Remission-era Puppy does. There's something rawer and more urgent about the old recordings, plus a sense that they weren't trying to cram a thousand different sounds into the mix. I feel the same way about Front Line Assembly's earlier work. I'll take State of Mind over, say, Hard Wired any day.

One thing I do appreciate about this period of Puppy's existence is the wordplay of the album as well as the song titles: "Love in Vein," "Knowhere?," etc. It's a theme they'd continue on subsequent releases, notably on Ogre's two solo albums. SunnyPsyOp was particularly inspired.

By the way, picking up the thread from yesterday's post, "Skinny Puppy" might fit into the category of unusual names for industrial bands. For one thing, it doesn't contain numbers or the words "dead," "front," or "digital."

Also today:

53:00 Monolith, Labyrinth
52:59 Museum of Transient Lights, Dream a Little Dream
52:58 Front 242, No Comment
52:58 KIFOTH, Fundamentum Divisionis
52:57 Digital Factor, One More Piece
52:57 Funker Vogt, Thanks for Nothing
New arrival! 71:00 Flëur, Everything Is out of Control
52:56 Death in June, Take Care & Control