Editing Cleanse Fold and Manipulate (section)

=== Critical reception ===
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r18163/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[New Musical Express]]''
| rev2score = 9/10<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Dogged Puppy |last=Barron |first=Jack |date=30 January 1988 |magazine=[[New Musical Express]] |page=30}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Times Colonist]]''
|rev3score = {{Rating|2|4}}<ref name="Litman" />
}}
Tim DiGravina of [[AllMusic]] said the album was "hard to recommend". He went on to say while it did contain one of the band's best songs, "Deep Down Trauma Hounds", much of the album was ambient and fragmentary. Still, he added, "fans of industrial music will appreciate the album's formidable beats and coarse [[Sampler (musical instrument)|sound samples]] that seem to be generated from warping the sounds of heavy machinery. Perhaps more than other any place in Skinny Puppy's discography, Ogre's vocals work like spoken-word stream-of-conscious dementia, with more emphasis on evil tones than on any relation to their music". He concluded by saying the album was primarily recommendable to die hard fans.<ref name="allmusic overview">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r18163|pure_url=yes}} | title=Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Overview | author=DiGravina, Tim | work=[[Allmusic]] | publisher=Rovi Corporation | access-date=April 29, 2010}}</ref> Evelyn Erskine from the ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'' gave the album a favorable review, saying the album was "dark and frightening", and described the flow of its songs as "cinematic". Erskine remarked that the album was weakened by the band's overreliance on gothic horror elements.<ref name="Erskine">{{cite journal |last1=Erskine |first1=Evelyn |title=Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate |journal=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=August 21, 1987 |page=D5}}</ref> ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine recommended the album, calling it "the right combination of gloom-and-doom lyrics and throbbing, metallic music".<ref name=Billboard>{{cite magazine|title=Album Reviews|magazine=Billboard|date=August 29, 1987|volume=99|issue=35|page=80|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/80s/1987/Billboard-1987-08-29-OCR-Page-0062.pdf#search=%22skinny%20puppy%22}}</ref>

''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine said listening to the album was "like stepping into a nightmare being experienced by the [[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|Phantom of the Opera]]" and concluded that the band was "too garish for extended exposure but, in small doses, they are extremely powerful".<ref name=people>{{cite journal|title=Picks and Pans Review: In No Sense? Nonsense!|journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=December 7, 1987|volume=28|issue=23|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20097754,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919184427/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20097754,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2015}}</ref> Mike Saunders of the ''[[Sun-Sentinel]]'' thought the album was an intriguing accomplishment, but that the initial "voyeuristic thrill" received from listening wears off before the album ends.<ref name="Saunders">{{cite journal |last1=Saunders |first1=Mike |title=Downbeat Carried Too Far |journal=[[Sun-Sentinel]] |date=December 6, 1987 |page=3F}}</ref> Frances Litman from the ''[[Times Colonist]]'' thought the album was tamer than the band's previous work and only recommended it to club-goers.<ref name="Litman">{{cite journal |last1=Litman |first1=Frances |title=Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate (Capitol) |journal=[[Times Colonist]] |date=August 1, 1987 |page=C7}}</ref>