When this album was released I had become friends with the record store manager in the small college town I lived in. I later moved into the small house he rented on the outskirts of town. He first wooed me with mix tapes he made on his 4-track recorder. He crossfaded tracks and inserted movie samples, they were works of art. I had no idea he was a talented musician as well. We both fell in love with this album and he even more so with #skinnypuppy musical canon. We have kept loose contact since 1992 and I've watched his own musical compositions turn from Frippian guitar prog to ambient shoegaze structures. Somehow I always hear Skinny Puppy's influence in his work that sounds nothing like them. Whenever I hear Skinny Puppy I think of him and all of his projects (including his knack for photography). We enjoyed this CD immensely, it's caustic weird rhythms and prog compositions are littered with horror and psychedelic imagery. And while the disc is maddeningly structured (the individual songs aren't marked by the tracking numbers so your player will start track 2 halfway through the song and et cetera. Dicks.) We devoured it that year. It's the kind of music that if you "get it" you love it, if you don't then you complain it's noise. Their discography is vast and varied sounding but this is arguably their masterpiece (though their disc "too dark park" can be thrown into the argument as well) they have a bunch of interesting side projects as well, though most are ambient and not as engaging as their collective output.
P.s. check out my buddy's current project: Cystem.
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