This is easily my favorite Skinny Puppy album and for a number of reasons. There is no filler tracks on here, outside of Reclamation if you want to be picky. All the songs contain some of the bands best lyrics. I love all the remixes they did for the singles. Both singles that came out of this album are their best ones, which were Spasmolytic and Tormentor. Finally, the artwork was my favorite as ... read more
Description:While never particularly accessible to begin with, Skinny Puppy reacted to the mainstreaming of industrial (Ministry, KMFDM) with their most challenging disc. Reissued with new packaging, 1990's Too Dark Park does not follow the path set by its predecessor, Rabies, which dabbled in rock structure and pomp. There are most definitely guWhile never particularly accessible to begin with, Skinny Puppy reacted to the mainstreaming of industrial (Ministry, KMFDM) with their most challenging disc. Reissued with new packaging, 1990's Too Dark Park does not follow the path set by its predecessor, Rabies, which dabbled in rock structure and pomp. There are most definitely guitars here, but nothing resembling a riff or hook. Each track is already filled up with layers upon layers of audio collage, abrasive squalls, squawks, and squelches, with less emphasis on the clever film samples and tortured vocals of frontman Nivek Ogre. For the first time, his prose seems disconnected from the sound sculpture, hanging alone in its anguish. Signature beats keep Too Dark Park in the industrial-dance genre, and although the pace does let up on occasion ("Nature's Revenge"), its overall cacophony ("Reclamation") makes it a dense listen. --Liisa Ladouceur... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Unknown Label Release date : 19 October 1998 EAN: 0067003006828 UPC: 067003006828
“This is easily my favorite Skinny Puppy album and for a number of reasons. There is no filler tracks on here, outside of Reclamation if you want to be picky. All the songs contain some of the bands best lyrics. I love all the remixes they did for the singles. Both singles that came out of this album are their best ones, which were Spasmolytic and Tormentor. Finally, the artwork was my favorite as well. I do wish that the fold out poster didn't have lyrics on it, otherwise it'd be hanging up on my wall right now.
I won't go into a track by track detail but I'll just break down what I like best about each one. For Convulsion, the simple heavy guitar fits the track perfect with the rest of it's distorted sounds. Tormentor has some of the most unique sounding drums I've ever heard. S” read more