According to Cevin Key on Facebook…new album will be out in May.
Excellent.
Thanks for the heads up!
I’m excited, though I think the last record was extremely tense and uncomfortable…don’t ask me why…
Cool. I thought the last one was a pretty cool record! Psyched to see them tour again!
I loved the last album. Crazy year for music. Me likes!
I thought the last one was disappointing.
Promo poster from Steven R. Gilmore:
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DJ - dude their latest Bootlegged, Broke, and In Solvent Seas is wonderful. check it out.
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I wasn’t expecting one so soon, but yeah, I’m excited!
That promo poster looks more like a summer blockbuster promo…
DJ - dude their latest Bootlegged, Broke, and In Solvent Seas is wonderful.
this.
It does look more like a blockbuster poster hehe…I like the fonts they’re using and the artwork in general has been interesting for everything post reunion…
I respect them for really staying true doing their own thing in many ways since reuniting. Hasn’t felt like they’ve tried to cash in on the classic sound or gone backwards.really…
You can’t say the same for many of their contemporaries.
From Metropolis Records:
PRE-ORDER: Order now, and we will ship this item to you when it is released on May 28, 2013.
Limited Edition 180 gram vinyl version available here.
It its nearly three decades of existence, Skinny Puppy has established itself as a groundbreaking innovative voice in the world of electronic music. Fearless in both its musical experimentation and voicing a stance on the issues of our times, the new album, Weapon, is no exception.
This stunning new album stands as a commentary on that which it is named after, the Weapon, or more specifically, to the concurrent glorification of the gun culture and simultaneous horror at the devastation the gun can cause. Given this view, the pop undertones of the albums opening “wornin” and the compelling counterpoint of the vocals and lyrics seem to reflect our mass media homogenization of an instrument of death into an entertainment centerpiece. “illisiT" could then be focusing on the authoritarian control applied to us under the guise of protecting us from the criminal element. Though possibly it is from the view of the average citizen, arming themselves against the threat of each other. The more it is analyzed, the more it could be pondered on varying levels. Perhaps the classic Skinny Puppy sounds evident in the song “solvent” are a nod to not only the past, but to a bleak Orwellian future, cycle of the weapon leads only to power in the hands of those who have no fear of using it. Are we facing a 1984 dystopia filtered through a Kafkaesque lens? A world where the illusion of power given to the private citizen afforded ownership of a weapon distracts them from the Big Brother drones that watch overhead?
Parallels could certainly be drawn from our own society to a track like “tsudanama”, where the ever building menace of the mechanized rhythms crashes over the listener in waves as the vocals at times seem to take the tone of the voice of protest, standing against the inevitable tide of the dystopian path of progress. Then does “plasiCage” implore the listener to take up the fight against a gun worship culture and the spiraling towards oligarchy? Or are the mournful tones “terminal” a funeral dirge for our society?
Could the weapon be the gun, or the one who wields it? Is it in creating an arms race among the populace, or does it lie in the resulting authoritarian control given to those who are charged with protecting us from ourselves? Is it the power to profit from the cycle? Is it the singular act of speaking against the conditioning of our thoughts and actions?
- wornin’
- illisiT
- saLvo
- gLowbeL
- solvent
- paragUn
- survivalisto
- tsudanama
- plastiCage
- terminal
Genre: Electro Industrial
- wornin’
- illisiT
- saLvo
- gLowbeL
- solvent
- paragUn
- survivalisto
- tsudanama
- plastiCage
- terminal
Oh brother.
I agree. I find the song titles a bit annoying. cEvin didn’t start doing this until Download, but they should stay in Download, not SP. The newer albums are awesome though.
HAHA!!! The song titles look like they were texted in via cell phone by some illiterate 12 year old.
And yeah, I thought the artwork was a Spiderman poster or something. I do think it’s kind of cool looking. I would never want that crap on a t-shirt, though.
I can’t say much about Skinny Puppy, though.
What Peligro said in another thread about “high-school bands”. That would be Skinny Puppy for me.
The song titles were always goofy. Cleanse Fold and Manipulate had “Dog Shit” on it.
That was VIVIsectVI, but yeah, I guess you have a point.
The titles have always been goofy. Who cares though? The songs themselves were really the representations, not the titles. And ohGr did the weird titles like that too. Nothing new for either of them.
Metropolis press releases read as unadulterated word vomit. Hyperbolic displays that don’t provide much merit when looking for description of the actual music.
I interpret this as being more linearly conceptual than the last few. Gun control, why not, it’s a hot button topic that will continue to cause debate decades from now unlike the fermenting documents of the Bush Trilogy or say “WWIII”. The Ohgr titles are throwing me off and distract. It was cute ten years ago and now time’s ripe for change.
Disagree with posters saying SP song titles are all silly, c’mon, the best of them are bold, commanding, say them out loud. WORLOCK. ADDICTION. KILLING GAME. GODS GIFT.
Don’t forget PARABOLA!