Remission (Skinny Puppy album)

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Remission
Studio album by Skinny Puppy
Released	December 1984
Recorded	July-Aug. 1984 (Mushroom Studios, Vancouver)
Genre	Industrial
Length	24:09 (original) 39:37 (re-issue)
Label	Nettwerk (Canada) Scarface/Play It Again Sam (Europe)
Producer	cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
Professional reviews
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Skinny Puppy chronology
Back and Forth (1983) Remission (1984) Bites (1985)

Remission is a 1984 EP by Skinny Puppy. It was later re-released on CD with extra tracks added to make it a full-length album.

[edit] Track listing (original EP release)

1. "Smothered Hope" – 5:14
2. "Glass Houses" – 3:24
3. "Far Too Frail" – 3:41
4. "Solvent" – 4:37
5. "Sleeping Beast" – 6:01
6. "...Brap" – 1:12

[edit] Track listing (re-issued LP release)

1. "Smothered Hope" – 5:14
2. "Glass Houses" – 3:21
3. "Incision" – 4:41
4. "Far Too Frail" – 3:43
5. "Film" – 2:51
6. "Manwhole" – 1:44
7. "Ice Breaker" – 2:46
8. "Solvent" – 4:38
9. "Sleeping Beast" – 6:01
10. "Glass Out" – 3:25
11. "...Brap" – 1:09

[edit] Personnel

• Nivek Ogre (voice, lyriks, synth, spooky horn, treatments)
• cEvin Key (production, engineering, synths, acoustic and metallik perkussions, rhythm programming, tapes, voice, treatments)
• Dave Ogilvie (production, engineering)
• Wilhelm Schroeder (bass synth on "Incision", "Manwhole", "Ice Breaker")
• D. Plevin (fretless bass on "Glass Houses")

[edit] Production notes

• The cover art was designed by Steven R. Gilmore.
• Sides on the vinyl release are labelled "Back" and "Forth".
• Originally released as a vinyl EP in 1984 by Nettwerk. The first CD release was in 1987, when Remission (along with the extra track "Glass Out") was combined with the 1985 album Bites to form the release Bites and Remission on Nettwerk in 1987. A similar release called Remission & Bites was also released on Play It Again Sam in Europe during the same year. Finally, in 1993, Remission was released separately on CD, with some alternate versions of tracks from the Bites era added to extend the playing time to album length.
• The songs "Smothered Hope", "Glass Houses", "Far Too Frail" and "Glass Out" contain various samples from Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt–"The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?"
• The song "Incision" contains samples from the movie The Tenant–"Thou shalt return to the dust from which thou came, and only thy bones remain. The worms shall consume thy eyes, thy lips, thy mouth. They shall enter into thy ears, they shall enter into thy nostrils. The body shall putrify unto its innermost recesses and shall give off a noisome stench..."
• The songs "Film" and "Manwhole" contain samples from the film The Legend of Hell House–"Think of me as your unseen host and believe that, during your stay here, I shall be with you in spirit. May you find the answer that you seek. It is here, I promise you. And now, Auf Wiedersehen."
• The song "Far Too Frail" contains samples from a speech by President Ronald Reagan.