SKINNY PUPPY - CD WEAPON

Popis - WEAPON:
In it's nearly three decades of existence, Skinny Puppy has
established itself as a groundbreaking innovative voice in the
world of electronic music. Fearless in both its musical
experimentation and voicing a stance on the issues of our
times, the 2013 album, 'Weapon', is no exception. This stunning
release stands as a commentary on that which it is named after,
the Weapon, or more specifically, to the concurrent
glorification of the gun culture and simultaneous horror at the devastation the gun can cause. Given this view, the pop
undertones of the album's opening 'Wornin' and the compelling
counterpoint of the vocals and lyrics seem to reflect our mass
media homogenization of an instrument of death into an
entertainment centerpiece. 'illisiT' could then be focusing on
the authoritarian control applied to us under the guise of
protecting us from the criminal element. Though possibly it is
from the view of the average citizen, arming themselves against
the threat of each other. The more it is analyzed, the more it
could be pondered on varying levels. Perhaps the classic Skinny Puppy sounds evident in the song 'Solvent' are a nod to not
only the past, but to a bleak Orwellian future, cycle of the
weapon leads only to power in the hands of those who have no
fear of using it. Are we facing a 1984 dystopia filtered
through a Kafkaesque lens? A world where the illusion of power
given to the private citizen afforded ownership of a weapon
distracts them from the Big Brother drones that watch overhead?
Parallels could certainly be drawn from our own society to a
track like 'Tsudanama', where the ever building menace of the mechanized rhythms crashes over the listener in waves as the
vocals at times to take the tone of the voice of protest,
standing against the inevitable tide of the dystopian path of
progress. Then does 'Plasicage' implore the listener to take up
the fight against a gun worship culture and the spiraling
towards oligarchy? Or are the mournful tones "terminal" a
funeral dirge for our society? Could the weapon be the gun, or
the one who wields it? Is it in creating an arms race among the
populace, or does it lie in the resulting authoritarian control
given to those who are charged with protecting us from ourselves? Is it the power to profit from the cycle? Is it the
singular act of speaking against the conditioning of our
thoughts and actions?