overreliance on gothic horror elements. Billboard magazine recommended the album, calling it "the right combination of gloom-and-doom lyrics and throbbing, metallic music". People magazine said listening to the album was "like stepping into a nightmare being experienced by the Phantom of the Opera" and concluded that the band was "too garish for extended exposure but, in small doses, they are extremely powerful". 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. Frances Litman from the Times Colonist thought the album was tamer than the band's previous work and only recommended it to club-goers. Track listing Additional notes To promote the album, Capitol Records (who were responsible for the release of Skinny Puppy music outside of Canada) distributed eyeball paperweights. Cleanse Fold and Manipulate is a cyclical album: the end of track 10, "Epilogue", segues into the beginning of track 1, "First Aid." In response to the cover's source image by Gilmore: "It is an image from the original 1960s movie of Village Of The Damned. There is a little tongue-in-cheek history behind using that image as the manager for Images In Vogue, a band that 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." "Draining Faces" was featured on The Blair Witch Project soundtrack. Personnel All information from Allmusic. 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 Mastering – Pete Norman Cover artwork – Steven R. Gilmore References 1987 albums Skinny Puppy albums Nettwerk Records albums