Editing Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

{{Infobox album|
| name       = Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Skinny Puppy]]
| cover      = CleanseFoldAlbumCover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = June 25, 1987
| recorded   = 1987, [[Vancouver]]
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Electro-industrial]]
| length     = 42:13
| label      = [[Nettwerk]]
| producer   = [[Dave Ogilvie]], [[cEvin Key]]<ref name="allmusic credits"/>
| prev_title = [[Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse]]
| prev_year  = 1986
| next_title = [[VIVIsectVI]]
| next_year  = 1988
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Addiction (Skinny Puppy song)|Addiction]]
 | single1date = 1987
}}
}}
'''''Cleanse Fold and Manipulate''''' is the third studio album by Canadian [[electro-industrial]] group [[Skinny Puppy]].  The album was released in 1987 and was supported by a single, "[[Addiction (Skinny Puppy song)|Addiction]]".<ref name="SPdiscography">{{cite web|last1=Kern|first1=Jay|title=Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography|url=http://prongs.org/brap/SP.html|website=Prongs|publisher=Mythos Press|access-date=29 May 2016}}</ref> The album was further supported by the ''Head Trauma'' tour, which spanned across [[North America]] and [[Europe]]. ''[[Ain't It Dead Yet?|Ain't it Dead Yet?]]'', a recording of the group performing in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada, was released on video in 1989 and CD in 1991.<ref name="SPdiscography" />

==Music==
''Cleanse Fold and Manipulate'' explores a number of different topics concerning medicine, society, and politics. The song "First Aid" addresses what was the growing [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] epidemic of the 1980s, while "Second Tooth" concerns with the struggles faced by [[Vietnam War]] veterans, namely [[Posttraumatic stress disorder|post-traumatic stress]].<ref name="Bulky">{{cite journal|last1=Shurtluff|first1=Kevin|title=Bulky and Surrealistic: Skinny Puppy|journal=Alternative Press|date=December 1988|volume=3|issue=14|url=http://litany.net/interviews/shurt88.html|access-date=29 May 2016}}</ref> The song "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" was written following a string of teenage [[suicide]]s in the United States.<ref name="DogDay">{{cite journal|title=Dog Day Afternoon|journal=Melody Maker|date=21 May 1988|url=http://litany.net/interviews/mm88.html}}</ref> [[Nivek Ogre]], the group's vocalist and songwriter, said of the suicides:

{{blockquote|It seemed very scary to me that all these kids had such a bleak prospect on their future. I was on the tail-end of the generation that grew up with [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney]] and ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' and ''[[Bambi]]'' and all those things that were so beautiful and important to grow up with. You need those things to perpetuate [yourself] through the years when you become cynical, instead kids are just growing up into this dark world.<ref name="DogDay" />}}

Other songs on the album pay homage to [[horror film]]s. The song "The Mourn" is based on the [[Japan]]ese extreme horror movie ''[[Flower of Flesh and Blood#Flower of Flesh and Blood|Flower of Flesh and Blood]]'' from the ''[[Guinea Pig (film series)|Guinea Pig]]'' film series. According to the group, the film was the closest they had ever come to seeing what they felt was a real [[Snuff film|snuff movie]].<ref name="DogDay" /> Footage from the film has since been used in their live shows.

==Release==
''Cleanse Fold and Manipulate'' was released on June 25, 1987. Eyeball paperweights were distributed by [[Capitol Records]] to help promote the album.<ref name="SPdiscography" /> The record sold 80,000 copies by October 1988, with 90 percent of sales being outside [[Canada]].<ref name="Mackie">{{cite journal |last1=Mackie |first1=John |title=Welcome to the Weird World of One Rock's Most Bizarre Bands |journal=[[Vancouver Sun]] |date=October 1, 1988 |page=H13}}</ref>

=== 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>

== Track listing ==
{{track listing
| all_music    = Skinny Puppy
| extra_column = Sample(s)<ref name=sample>{{cite web|last1=Cigéhn |first1=Peter |title=The Top Sampling Groups List: Skinny Puppy |url=http://www.sloth.org/samples-bin/samples/group?entry=Skinny+Puppy |website=Internet Archive: Wayback Machine |access-date=19 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041030150321/http://www.sloth.org/samples-bin/samples/group?entry=Skinny+Puppy |archive-date=October 30, 2004 }}</ref>
| title1          = First Aid
| length1         = 4:29
| title2          = [[Addiction (Skinny Puppy song)|Addiction]]
| extra2 = {{Collapsible list|title=Contains samples of:|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left|
* "[[Mirror Image (The Twilight Zone)|Mirror Image]]" (1960) from ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' by [[John Brahm]]}}
| length2         = 6:01
| title3          = Shadow Cast
| extra3 = {{Collapsible list|title=Contains samples of:|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left|
* ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2]]'' (1986) by [[Tobe Hooper]]}}
| length3         = 4:18
| title4          = Draining Faces
| extra4 = {{Collapsible list|title=Contains samples of:|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left|
* ''[[Videodrome]]'' (1983) by [[David Cronenberg]]
* ''[[Year of the Dragon (film)|Year of the Dragon]]'' (1985) by [[Michael Cimino]]}}
| length4         = 5:12
| title5          = The Mourn
| extra5 = {{Collapsible list|title=Contains samples of:|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left|
* ''[[From Beyond (film)|From Beyond]]'' (1986) by [[Stuart Gordon]]}}
| length5         = 2:41
| title6          = Second Tooth
| extra6 = {{Collapsible list|title=Contains samples of:|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left|
* ''[[Legend (1985 film)|Legend]]'' (1985) by [[Ridley Scott]]}}
| length6         = 4:06
| title7          = Tear or Beat
| extra7 = {{Collapsible list|title=Contains samples of:|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left|
* ''[[Maniac (1980 film)|Maniac]]'' (1980) by [[William Lustig]]}}
| length7         = 4:42
| title8          = Deep Down Trauma Hounds
| extra8 = {{Collapsible list|title=Contains samples of:|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left|
* ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'' (1957–1966) by [[Gail Patrick]]
* ''[[Water, Water Every Hare]]'' (1952) by [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
* KSTW-11 television station}}
| length8         = 4:41
| title9          = Anger
| length9         = 4:53
| title10         = Epilogue
| length10        = 1:10
| total_length    = 42:13
}}

==Additional notes ==
*To promote the album, [[Capitol Records]] (who were responsible for the release of Skinny Puppy music outside of Canada) distributed eyeball [[paperweight]]s.<ref name="SPdiscography" />
*''Cleanse Fold and Manipulate'' is a [[Song cycle|cyclical album]]: the end of  track 10, "Epilogue", segues into the beginning of track 1, "First Aid."{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}}
*In response to the cover's source image by Gilmore: "It is an image from the original 1960s movie of ''[[Village of the Damned (1960 film)|Village Of The Damned]]''. There is a little tongue-in-cheek history behind using that image as the manager for [[Images in Vogue|Images In Vogue]], a band that [[cEvin Key|C. Key]] used to be in before Skinny Puppy, was a former child model from [[England]] and had a role in the movie. But the face on the cover was another child actor from the movie."{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}}
*"Draining Faces" was featured on ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Blair Witch Soundtrack|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-blair-witch-project-joshs-blair-witch-mix-enhanced-disc-mw0000242553|website=Allmusic|access-date=29 May 2016}}</ref>

== Personnel ==
All information from [[AllMusic]].<ref name="allmusic credits">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r18163/credits|pure_url=yes}} | title=Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Credits | work=[[AllMusic]] | access-date=April 29, 2010}}</ref>

=== Musicians ===
* [[Nivek Ogre]] – voices, lyrics, objects, audio sculpture 
* [[cEvin Key]] – synthesizers, guitar, drums, bass, voices, lyrics, sampling, sequencing, sounds, objects, radio, tapes, sequencers 
* [[Dwayne Goettel]] – synthesizers, guitar, drums, background vocals sampling, tape, sequencing, radio, sequencers, synthesizers, guitar, drums, bass, voices, lyrics, sampling, sequencing, sounds, objects, radio, tapes, sequencers and set ALL the input of Crompton a.k.a. cEvin Key to entropy.
* Peter Rave – guitar

=== Production ===
* Producers – cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
* Engineers – cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
* [[Audio mastering|Mastering]] – Pete Norman 
* Cover artwork – [[Steven R. Gilmore]]

== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Chart performance for ''Cleanse Fold and Manipulate''
! scope="col"| Chart (2024)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Swedish Albums ([[Sverigetopplistan]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/54?dspy=2024&dspp=18|title=Veckolista Album, vecka 18|publisher=[[Sverigetopplistan]]|access-date=May 3, 2024}}</ref>
| 55
|}

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