SKINNY PUPPY
B-SIDES COLLECT
COMPILATION ALBUM NETTWERK, MNW RELEASE: NOVEMBER 16, 1999 (NORTH AMERICA), JANUARY 31, 2000 (SCANDINAVIA) REVIEW: FEBRUARY 17, 2000


Nettwerk releases two single compilations simultaneously, one with the actual single tracks and one with the extra tracks. A good idea to, as opposite to the old "Twelve Inch Anthology", which included everything in one CD.
"B-Sides Collect" is of course mostly for the fans, but here one gets a lot of rare material remastered, on CD and in all one row. All Skinny Puppy singles are now deleted, but even when they were new they weren't always easy to find. And at least myself seldom play old singles anyway.
Skinny Puppy was a band that had demanding and experimental pieces on most of their albums. Therefore extra tracks and remixes were even more so. Nevertheless, most of these 14 tracks are quite interesting when played at the proper time.

MIKAEL KAHRLE