Too Dark Park is of course awesome. about two years
ago I was listening to it again and thinking about how
far ahead of its time it was... I mean 1990? What
the fuck else in electronic music sounded half that
cool? Just listen to the wicked drum beat on shore
lined poison (i think)... I mean no offense, but
Aphex and Autechre were still playing presets on their
new/old fangled synths... and continued doing so for 5
more years.
That said, I think Last Rights is unquestionably
skinny puppy's masterpiece. I don't know if I've ever
heard an album like that one. Billions of samples,
destroyed sounds, seriously brain twisting.
Without a doubt in my mind I can say that Last Rights
was one of the (if not THE) most important albums in
my listening career because it totally opened my mind
to the possibilities of noise disasters... originally
i just liked the first half, which is pretty "normal",
but over time the second half (which cevin key has
described as "the sound of us putting needles in our
arms") became far more preferable, culminating in the
day I finally realized Download, rather than being
"the weird noise track that is too long and kind of
sucks at the end" was by far the best thing on the
record...
Too Dark Park is like the prelude... you can hear it
all starting to come together, and Last Rights is
where it did. I mean, if I hadn't been listening to
Too Dark Park all the time Last Rights would probably
have been lost on me, even the "normal" songs. And
yeah, it probably kicks more ass that last rights, but
kicking ass only goes so far.
and while i like/liked older puppy, there's no denying
that a lot of it sounds dated. Last Rights will NEVER
sound dated.
(and I don't even consider the process to be a skinny
puppy album - i prefer thinking of them as the band
that went out on top).
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