Remission (EP)
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Producer | cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie | |||
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Remission is a 1984
This expansion became the default version of Remission.Remission was certified gold by Music Canada on January 31, 2000.[3]
Release history
In December 1984, Remission was distributed through Nettwerk as Skinny Puppy's first major release. Despite being preceded by the embryonic Back & Forth EP that was limited to just 35 home-printed copies,[1] Remission is seen as the band's debut effort.[4] To complicate the matter further, most issues of the EP following its release year, 1984, were expanded with five additional tracks, retroactively turning it into a full-blown studio album.[1]
In 1993, Nettwerk released Remission on CD using the expanded track listing from the 1985 cassette release.[1] However, this wasn't the first time Remission appeared in the format; the EP's first CD release was in 1987, when it (along with the appended track "Glass Out") was combined with Skinny Puppy's 1985 album Bites to form the release Bites and Remission (a compilation distinct from the less popular Remission & Bites, which was also released in 1987 and also on Nettwerk, but that preserved the original track sequence of Remission and the European sequence of Bites).[1][5]
On May 17, 2018, cEvin Key released "Coma", an instrumental track created during the Remission era, through his YouTube channel.[6]
Background and composition
Both Remission and Skinny Puppy's follow-up album
In 2013, Skinny Puppy's 12th album (4th since being reunited without the presence of Goettel), Weapon, was released as a sort of spiritual successor to both Remission and Bites. Apart from containing a re-recorded version of "Solvent" from Remission, Weapon was deliberately created with antiquated instruments to achieve their early 1980s-style electronic sound.[10][11]
Critical reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Contemporary reception of Remission was mostly positive. The
Track listing
No. | Title | Sample(s)[14][15][1] | Length |
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1. | "Smothered Hope" | Contains samples of:
| 5:14 |
2. | "Glass Houses" | Contains samples of:
| 3:24 |
3. | "Far Too Frail" | Contains samples of:
| 3:41 |
No. | Title | Sample(s)[14][15][1] | Length |
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1. | "Solvent" | 4:37 | |
2. | "Sleeping Beast" | Contains samples of:
| 6:01 |
3. | "Brap…" | Contains samples of:
| 1:12 |
Total length: | 24:09 |
No. | Title | Sample(s)[14][15][1] | Length |
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1. | "Smothered Hope" | Contains samples of:
| 5:14 |
2. | "Glass Houses" | Contains samples of:
| 3:21 |
3. | "Incision" | Contains samples of:
| 4:41 |
4. | "Far Too Frail" | Contains samples of:
| 3:43 |
5. | "Film" | Contains samples of:
| 2:51 |
6. | "Manwhole" | Contains samples of:
| 1:44 |
7. | "Ice Breaker" | Contains samples of:
| 2:46 |
8. | "Solvent" | 4:38 | |
9. | "Sleeping Beast" | Contains samples of:
| 6:01 |
10. | "Glass Out" | Contains samples of:
| 3:25 |
11. | "…Brap" | Contains samples of:
| 1:09 |
Total length: | 39:33 |
Personnel
All credits adapted from Remission liner notes.[16]
Skinny Puppy
- Nivek Ogre – vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, spooky horn[17]
- cEvin Key – synthesizer, drums, percussion, tapes, vocals, treatments, production
Additional personnel
- Dave Ogilvie – production, engineering
- bass synthon "Incision", "Manwhole", and "Ice Breaker"
- D. Plevin – fretless bass on "Glass Houses"
- Steven R. Gilmore – cover art
- Greg Sykes – typography
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada)[3] | Gold | 50,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second ed.). Mythos Press. p. 14.
- ^ Remission (Cassette liner notes). Skinny Puppy. Nettwerk. 1985. 85561-5009-4. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ a b "Canadian album certifications – Skinny Puppy – Remission". Music Canada. January 31, 2000. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Skinny Puppy, Remission". AllMusic. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- ^ Remission & Bites (CD liner notes). Skinny Puppy. PIAS Recordings. 1987. BIAS 48. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
{{cite AV media notes}}
: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Key, cEvin. "Skinny puppy- coma 1983 ( cevin key instrumental )". YouTube. Retrieved May 17, 2018.[dead YouTube link]
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Skinny Puppy Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- ^ DiGravina, Tim. "Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse". AllMusic. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- ^ Reid, Gordon (December 2014). "The history of Roland: part 2 | Sound On Sound". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^ Gourley, Bob (19 November 2013). "Ogre of Skinny Puppy talks Guantanamo Bay and "Weapon"". Chaos Control. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- ^ Burnsilver, Glenn. "Skinny Puppy: "We Spent an Unnecessary Amount of Time on hanDover"". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- ^ a b Chillingworth, Alec (9 November 2016). "How Skinny Puppy Changed Metal". Metal Hammer. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- ^ Clouston, Richard (27 November 2014). "The 20 best industrial and EBM records ever made". Fact. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- ^ a b c Cigéhn, Peter. "Skinny Puppy samples (The Top Sample Lists)". The Top Sample Lists. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Skinny Puppy – Video Samples from Movies and Official Bootleg Database". skinnypuppy.eu. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
- ^ Remission (vinyl liner notes). Skinny Puppy. Nettwerk. 1984. 12 NTWK 12. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Ogre, Nivek; Alacrity, Jason (November 18, 2013). "Litany webchat with Ogre and Jason Alacrity" (Interview). Interviewed by Corey Goldberg. Litany.net. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved May 21, 2018.