Too Dark Park

Artist: Skinny Puppy
Label: Nettwerk Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 067003006828
EAN: 0067003006828
ASIN: B00000DCJR

Release Date: 1998-10-20

Too Dark Park

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Tracks:

Convulsion
Tormentor
Spasmolytic
Rash Reflection
Natures Revenge
Shore Lined Poison
Grave Wisdom
T.F.W.O.
Morpheus Laughing
Reclamation

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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 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

Customer Reviews:

Soundtrack to the Apocalypse.......2005-12-05

This is, without a doubt, one of the best albums in the Industrial genre. Being a reformed Industrial nut, Too Dark Park stands as one of the few albums from the genre that I still listen to regularly. Dark, avant-garde, bizarrely catchy, nightmarish, hallucinatory, this is just a thoroughly compelling listen from beginning to end. I'd recommend this album to anyone with even the slightest interest in dark or experimental music.

AMAZING STUFF!!!!!!.......2005-10-22

This was my first SKINNY PUPPY cd!!!

NO BAND WILL EVER BE LIKE SKINNY PUPPY..THAT IS FOR SURE!!

This is more of a nightmare album than Vivisect vi and the song's are shorter..but still is about as good as vivisect vi!!

A TOTAL SOUNDTRACK TO A NIGHTMARE..WILL ALWAY'S MAKE YOU THINK!!!!! ANOTHER TOTAL MUST OWN ALBUM
FROM THE VAULT's OF THE 90'S!!!!!!

''GRAVE WISDOM''

Too Dark Park ~ Skinny Puppy.......2005-04-25

Too Dark Park is Skinny Puppy's most avantgard release and it came as a respond to industrial music becoming popular and adaptinga more "easy listening" approach and was in total contrast to their more standard rock release Rabies. This is a massive attack of layered sounds, distorted guitar riffs and vocals that have been masively altered with vocoders and other electronic treatments. This is a far cry for their basic first releases (bites & remission) and it shows them dabbling with equipement that they could dream of in the early days. The book-let is quite nice and it has a very strange art that could be said to look like medieval pictures of hell with evil beasts and and the worm on the back looks like a fiend from hell. This is a very different album and the most challenging Skinny Puppy release up to this point.

(scared sh-tless, cowering in corner of room) .......2004-12-12

Finally, my first review of a proper industrial album (my review for Ministry's Houses Of The Mole doesn't count since Ministry is in more of an "industrial metal" vein... besides, it wasn't much of a review anyway). And I couldn't have picked a better album to start with--though I gather that would-be rivetheads should probably cut their teeth on something easier. No matter.

Skinny Puppy's Too Dark Park is, in a word, SCARY. Nivek Ogre and cEVIN kEY are true composers of the dark and sinister. Listening to this album is like being in the throes of some drug-induced nightmare. Corrosive beats that sound like the drum machines are having seizures; noisy synths; disturbing, layered collages of samples (including the obligatory sirens); complex polyrhythmic assaults seemingly absent any trace of melody; and on top of this backdrop are Ogre's electronically distorted, hellish vocals. Forget Slayer and their pseudo-Satanic ilk, or the contrived teenage angst of Nine Inch Nails; this is what EVIL sounds like.

I've never understood why this album is labeled "industrial dance music." This sounds nothing at all like Revolting Cocks, Thrill Kill Kult, or KMFDM. No friendly dance beats here, just sheer sonic jihad from beginning to end. The lyrics fit the onslaught as well--insanity, pollution, exploitation, violence, mental illness, drug abuse. All the horrors of the modern world are on display.

Opener Convulsion sets the tone; Shore Lined Poison and Nature's Revenge have moments that would almost be considered "subdued" if they weren't so creepy and insane; Tormentor has its catchy beats eviscerated by waves of abrasive electronics; Rash Reflection has a suprisingly memorable chorus ("kiss the master's feet"); and Spasmolytic is pure f--king chaos, and I mean that in the best possible way.

Absolutely excellent, and highly recommended stuff if you think that you're up for it.

crazy as hell.......2004-12-01

Yeah, its a great album. 'unique' 'deep' and 'original' don't even begin to describe it. Yeah, its a fan favorite. I agree with all praise.

It's also bloody insane. This was the first puppy cd i bought. Why? It looked pretty. Then i spun it, christ was i shocked. Too Dark Park is the most insane album i have ever heard. Convulsion is the most insane song. I hated this album for two weeks, it was so far from anything i had ever heard before.

At this time, my mum was convalescing with some rare deadly disease. I lived with her for a month, slept in a closet in a high rise appt, away from everything i knew and hoping mom wouldnt die.

One song stood out, Spasmolytic. That song was how i felt. In time I got it. There are points in life that are horrible and inexplicable. For those times, this is the album.

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