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


This is Release and here Skinny Puppy need no introduction whatsoever.
Let’s just say, for the record, that this is one of the most innovative, groundbreaking and impressive industrial high tech bands ever. And when their old company Nettwerk delivers a compilation of title tracks from deleted singles, it will immidiately become nothing less than a gem in lots of CD collections. No real Puppy best of collection have been released until now – quite a mystery actually. Better late than never.
Of course, all the masterpieces are here: “Assimilate”, “Testure”, “Smothered Hope”, “Worlock”, “Censor”, “Addiction”, “Dig It”... Actually, I could mention the complete track list. Fifteen songs all in all, taken from the debut minialbum “Remission” to “Last Rights”. Nothing to from the grand finale American Recordings release  “Process”. And anyway, it didn’t hatch any singles.
This is a CD filled with Skinny Puppy trademark weirdo futuristic electronics, ranging from hard original EBM to twisted machine ballads. Always with that very special edge, a dimension, that most of their colleagues lack. And the songs are packed to the limit with details - sounds, noises, samples... But in the end they are real songs after all. Just the way I want it.
These are classics that I will carry with me until the day I die.

MIKAEL KAHRLE