SKINNY PUPPY STREAMING NEW SONG ON BLOODY-DISGUSTING
"hanDover" IN STORES OCTOBER 25th ON SPV/SYNTHETIC SYMPHONY
SKINNY PUPPY are mere days from unleashing their latest industrial masterpiece on the world. hanDover will be released next week on SPV/Synthetic Symphony. Over the past few weeks, SKINNY PUPPY has premiered select tracks from the upcoming release and today will premiere one more.
Bloody-Disgusting.com
the premiere home for horror on the internet is hosting a stream of the
new track "Icktums". Check out "Icktums" HERE.
hanDover can be pre-ordered HERE
peta2 has teamed up with SKINNY PUPPY and is offering an exclusive mp3 download of the track "Wavy" at this location. This mp3 is only available through next week.
Revolvermag.com is hosting a stream of the track "Village" HERE
hanDover,
centers not only on the unbridled greed of the world's financial
organizations and the governments that enable them, but the climate of
political impotence which makes people resign their fate, no matter how
insidious the situation gets. In typical PUPPY form, hanDover finds
the duo moving forward while still maintaining that sense of aural
discovery that has been a hallmark of their 26-year career.
"It's
definitely the overarching feel of 'bend over and take it,'" offers
Ogre, only half-kidding about the album's theme. "I recently listened to
the record and it's making even more sense to me. We're certainly
experiencing the rape of mankind as the world's economies slide even
further and the inability of people to look around them and see what's
going on. You're starting to see a neo-feudalistic empire on the rise.
People are getting so pissed off, they're turning on each other."
"I didn't want to write the record the same way as the previous ones," says Key about his m.o. on the first new PUPPY music since 2008's Mythmaker.
"I wanted there to be fresh angles, both in the songwriting and the
programming platforms. I was changing the whole element of myself just
to see what would happen. In the end, I made something different, but it
was still coming from me. I'm not interested in looking at my
accomplishments and myself. Like any electronic music fan, I look at the
big question: Where is it all going?"
Aided
by longtime associates Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall and Mark Walk, Ogre and
Key have delivered an album that mirrors today's cultural uncertainty.
At its most jarring, hanDover feels like digital epilepsy,
exchanging the band's predilection for opaque menace for a trembling,
near spasmodic discomfort. The amphetamine glitch-worship on "Gambatte,"
and the mechanized percolating of "Icktums" (with the refrain of
"Worship money, worship nothing") further emulates a societal framework
that's got its foot on the gas pedal on the road toward extinction.
Ogre's twisted fable, "Brownstone" is shored up with twitching
synthetics reminiscent of an orgy of hospital equipment. "Village" is an
indictment of financial institutions through the prism of the ignorant
populace that let them get away with the ruin. ("We're all made to
participate in it, so we're all in collusion," explains the singer.
"It's your typical Ogre paranoid ditty, complete with tinfoil hat.") The
seven-minute "NoiseX" weaves layers of programmed breakbeats into
phase-shifted psychedelic vistas to simulate a supercomputer's ascension
into purgatory. Ambience or attack-mode, you make the call.
When
considering the amount of factors contributing to today's
artist-hostile environment, one wonders why some people even bother to
continue to make music. It seems Ogre and Key have far too many ideas
ricocheting in their individual skulls to ever succumb to ennui or the
entitlement groupthink of many of their colleagues. One of their albums
was titled Ain't It Dead Yet: But after nearly three decades of
service, 14 studio albums, a plethora of remixes and all the
cartwheeling through a whole lot of psychic minefields, the answer is a
resounding hell, no. Because SKINNY PUPPY is one beast that cannot be tethered.
Track Listing
1) Ovirt
2) Cullorblind
3) Wavy
4) AshAs
5) Gambatte
6) Icktums
7) Point
8) Brownstone
9) Vyrisus
10) Village
11) NoiseX
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