Resonance, the fifth solo album by Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key, is out today on Artoffact Records.
As co-founder of Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key is renowned worldwide for his contributions to industrial music. Through Skinny Puppy, solo work, and numerous other projects, Key has dozens of releases to his name, spanning almost 40 years, and bears a reputation as one of the leaders who has shaped the genre.
Resonance features Key's cinematic, industrial-techno soundscapes with guest vocals by Edward KaSpel (The Legendary Pink Dots), Chris Corner (IAMX), Otto von Schirach, and more.
Resonance is inspired in part by the true story of Xwayxway, an Indigenous village located in what is now Stanley Park in Key's hometown of Vancouver. Key says: "I am honoured to be able to do that work... to lift up Indigenous voices... to help highlight the colonial erasure."
Stream the album and buy it, here:
https://brap.bandcamp.com/album/resonance
"Vancouver’s Skinny Puppy are the germinal group of 1980s industrial music, a revolutionary band that pushed the limits of their voices, bodies, and instruments in ways that are still fruitful 40 years later. Their sound came from two gems of 1970s UK underground, new wave synth pop and industrial experimentalism, and offered forth a string of jagged, lo-fi groovy singles that dominated alternative ’80s dance floors. Skinny Puppy also delivered to the masses two iconic musician/performers, cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre, whose powerful, shocking stage shows would define industrial of the decade."
–Pitchfork
"In another universe, one where Kraftwerk birthed the world, [Resonance] was released as a classical record – put out, listened to, and performed for rooms full of blackcoats and starched white shirts in the rarified space of ballrooms and amphitheater mezzanines... It stands as an eloquent and listenable record – technically as good as it is stylistically."
–ReGen
"A wonderfully crafted album, made by one of industrial's legends... A sprawling, beautifully produced album that plays more like an abstract soundtrack than an outright conventional record... A juxtaposition of nature-meets-machinery in the most engaging way possible."
–Sputnik Music
As co-founder of Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key is renowned worldwide for his contributions to industrial music. Through Skinny Puppy, solo work, and numerous other projects, Key has dozens of releases to his name, spanning almost 40 years, and bears a reputation as one of the leaders who has shaped the genre.
Resonance features Key's cinematic, industrial-techno soundscapes with guest vocals by Edward KaSpel (The Legendary Pink Dots), Chris Corner (IAMX), Otto von Schirach, and more.
Resonance is inspired in part by the true story of Xwayxway, an Indigenous village located in what is now Stanley Park in Key's hometown of Vancouver. Key says: "I am honoured to be able to do that work... to lift up Indigenous voices... to help highlight the colonial erasure."
Stream the album and buy it, here:
https://brap.bandcamp.com/album/resonance
"Vancouver’s Skinny Puppy are the germinal group of 1980s industrial music, a revolutionary band that pushed the limits of their voices, bodies, and instruments in ways that are still fruitful 40 years later. Their sound came from two gems of 1970s UK underground, new wave synth pop and industrial experimentalism, and offered forth a string of jagged, lo-fi groovy singles that dominated alternative ’80s dance floors. Skinny Puppy also delivered to the masses two iconic musician/performers, cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre, whose powerful, shocking stage shows would define industrial of the decade."
–Pitchfork
"In another universe, one where Kraftwerk birthed the world, [Resonance] was released as a classical record – put out, listened to, and performed for rooms full of blackcoats and starched white shirts in the rarified space of ballrooms and amphitheater mezzanines... It stands as an eloquent and listenable record – technically as good as it is stylistically."
–ReGen
"A wonderfully crafted album, made by one of industrial's legends... A sprawling, beautifully produced album that plays more like an abstract soundtrack than an outright conventional record... A juxtaposition of nature-meets-machinery in the most engaging way possible."
–Sputnik Music
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