Skinny Puppy ‎– hanDover

My favorite record hands down since The Process. It's focused and weird and sounds like the Kevins experimenting again. There are sounds on here that sound new and flickering and glimmering. I mean Ovirt alone harkens back to Remission-Bites era with blips and oddness and this album though heavy on topics grows more amazing each listen. In one of Kevin Ogilvie's most recent interviews he mentions that the original record "In Solvent See" (a play on insolvency) was interrupted due to issues that 'come up' with labels and the direction changed on the album. Said it was much darker and more political than he might have wanted it to be. But one thing I notice here is elegance. Cevin Key has truly been able to put his fingers everywhere here and it's stunning! It's not going to surprise me if there are harsh reviews by the fans of the earliest records. But if you've grown with Skinny Puppy you know that there is no way to ever pin them down by sound or style. Kevin said that every album has a story to tell, isn't that the truth?! He precluded that his writing since he was a child was fragmented on paper like a puzzle and he would dig out phrases. It's amazing to me after all these years that he's able to break into my brain the way he does with such darkness and ability to strip himself raw. A few nods here and there to new and old you must listen to the record to find them. Two great albums pushed out this year this and his solo effort 'Undeveloped'. Grab it and brap on...

oh, quit yer belly-achin'. are you even listening to yourselves? having an opinion about an album is one thing, but you guys can't even muster up a valid argument besides getting all butt-hurt over the fact that SP aren't releasing the exact same shit there were twenty years ago. get over it.

Not as good as "Mythmaker", still it shows Skinny Puppy is a band trying to move on with every release. The first half of the CD is melodic and melancholic, with very clean sounds, the second half returns on the familiar dark and harsh territories. "Point", "Village" and "Vyrisus" are excellent, especially the latter, very much in the vein of "Too Dark Park". Final "Noisex" is a strange and disturbing instrumental experiment. It grows with more and more listenings. The band is definitely still alive. I personally disagree with the usual moaning about "when we were young"... 3/5

from the 2 tracks i heard off this album (and could not finish) this is their worst album yet.

i wish this band never got back together they r just dragging their own name through the mud. a parody of a legend. so many bands that broke up that i wished for so long that would get back together and release a new album and its almost never a good result so i stopped hoping. its a damn shame where this band came from and where they r now its absolutely pathetic and only their name allows them to sell this generic garbage.

Very disappointing album.

Basically the current incarnation of Skinny Puppy has become a fusion of Nivek Ogre's side project "ohGr" in conjunction with "Skinny Puppy" (read: cevin key).

The "ohGr" sound has wound up overshadowing the tried and true Skinny Puppy sound. Quite a letdown.

Skinny Puppy remains my favorite band of all time due to their earlier works, but since Goettel died, it's been the least interesting and inspired of cEvin Key's efforts. his solo albums, collaborations with Spybey, Western, KaSpel, etc., are all challenging and interesting works. SP used to be harsh, experimental, and innovative. now they're not even relevant. it's sad, really, especially knowing that everything else Key is associated with is fantastic.