Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
Studio album by Skinny Puppy
Released	June 25, 1987
Recorded	1987, Vancouver
Genre	Post-industrial, electro-industrial, dark ambient
Length	42:13
Label	Nettwerk
Producer	Dave Ogilvie, cEvin Key
Skinny Puppy chronology
Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (1986) Cleanse Fold and Manipulate (1987) VIVIsectVI (1988)

Cleanse Fold and Manipulate is the third studio album by electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy. It was released in 1987.^[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Piero Scaruffi	[3]

Tim DiGravina of Allmusic said the album was "hard to recommend".^[4] He went on to say while it did contain one of the bands best songs, "Deep Down Trauma Hounds", much of the album was ambient and fragmentary.^[4] He concluded by saying the album was primarily recommendable to die hard fans.^[4]

Track listing

All information from Allmusic.^[5]

All music composed by Skinny Puppy.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"First Aid"	4:29
2.	"Addiction"	6:01
3.	"Shadow Cast"	4:18
4.	"Draining Faces"	5:12
5.	"The Mourn"	2:41
6.	"Second Tooth"	4:06
7.	"Tear or Beat"	4:42
8.	"Deep Down Trauma Hounds"	4:41
9.	"Anger"	4:53
10.	"Epilogue"	1:10
Total length:		42:13

Notes

Cleanse Fold and Manipulate is a cyclical album, the end of the track 10, "Epilogue" segues into the beginning of track 1, "First Aid."

In response to the cover's source image by Gilmore: "It is an image from the original 1960's movie of Village Of The Damned. There is a little tongue-in-cheek history behind using that image as the manager for Images In Vogue, a band that C. Key used to be in before Skinny Puppy, was a former child model from England and had a role in the movie. But the face on the cover was another child actor from the movie."

The song "The Mourn" is based on the extreme horror Guinea Pig film Flower of Flesh and Blood, and when it was written, they thought it was real. Footage from the movie has since been used in their live shows.

"Draining Faces" was featured on The Blair Witch Project soundtrack.

Personnel

All information from Allmusic.^[5]

Musicians

• Nivek Ogre – voices, lyricist, objects, audio sculpture
• cEvin Key – synthesizer, guitar, drums, voices, lyricist, sampling, sequencing, sounds, objects, radio, tapes, sequencers
• Dwayne Goettel – synthesizer, guitar, drums, background vocals sampling, tape, sequencing, radio, sequencers
• Peter Rave – guitar

Production

• Producers – cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
• Engineers – cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
• Mastering – Pete Norman
• Cover artwork – Steven R. Gilmore

References

1. ^ Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second Edition). Mythos Press. p. 25. 
2. ^ Allmusic review
3. ^ Piero Scaruffi review
4. ^ ^{a b c} DiGravina, Tim. "Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Overview". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r18163. Retrieved April 29, 2010. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Credits". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r18163/credits. Retrieved April 29, 2010.