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Product Description
Devil In My Details is the third solo collaboration between Ogre, lead singer and front man of legendary experimental rock band Skinny Puppy and Mark Walk. Together they have created a journey of epic proportions... Lush textures and soundscapes collide with crashing beats and twisted melodies to make up this Industrial tour de force. Can you sense the stink of fear?

Album Description
Devils In My Details is the third solo collaboration between Ogre, lead singer and front man of legendary experimental rock band Skinny Puppy and Mark Walk. Together they have created a journey of epic proportions, lush textures and soundscapes collide with crashing beats and twisted melodies to make up this Industrial tour de force. Can you sense the stink of fear? Can you dig this special vinyl edition?

Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Ogre's In The Details November 13, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

I am pretty used to the dogma that Ogre faces from Skinny Puppy fans at this point. Unfortunately it seems that everyone wants his releases to sound exactly like a SP album. I've listened to Tear Garden, Hilt, Rx and his other collaborations and it is pretty clear that they are not SP sounding records.

The doubt should be absolved that Ohgr is a "solo effort". It is a collaborative pairing of two highly talented guys. That being said it seems that some fans just see "Ohgr" and assume it is just Ogre.

The album D.I.M.D. is a grand follow up to the two previous releases. A major and befitting difference is a lack of melodic hooks and catchy lyrical twisting. Mark and Ogre have definitely meshed their ideas well in making a more complex layered sound. By looking at the artwork I was definitely expecting the unexpected! As with SP, and not in comparison, I am always surprised with the ideas that exude from the mind of Kevin Ogilvie...

This is a powerful, dark and beautiful album. It gets better with repeated listens, marking a very well produced piece of work. I definitely think that Ogre is a superbly intelligent artist who is highly inventive with his styling of vocals, words, and sounds. There isn't anyone doing music the way he does it! It will be great to see this album translate into his live act. Always a good show!

Key/Fave tracks: Shhh, Eyecandy, Three, Pepper, and Whitevan (a little nod to "Dig It" in the lyrics: "Digging at this whole sh**ty world, digging it today..."

I have over the many years of loving SP and all the other projects that they are a part of, come to respect the fact that you cannot expect one idea to sound like the next. It would not be an art form if you recreated it again and again. SunnyPsyOp sounds very different from Welt as Mythmaker is quite different from Too Dark Park.

This record is remarkable. Enjoy the darkness friends...

3 out of 5 stars

It's a good recording, but... November 7, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful

I think this is a very creative album.

The soundscapes are exactly what I would expect from Mark Walk, alien yet familiar. The weaving of riffs and ambiance is masterful and at times chaotic. The song structure is definitively anti-pop, which is nothing like WELT, but is touched on in Sunnypsyop. Some elements of songs just aren't used enough to give a song a solid form, which of course does not make it a catchy album you can growl to.

In my opinion if a band is going to feature one performer over another (in this case Ohgr/Ogre) then make them a significant part of the mix. THere is a lot of use of the terminology 'raw' in regards to this album, but would call it sloppy mixing and mastering. The vocals need to be lifted significantly by my various stereos so I can barely make out the ramblings of Ogre. THis I find disappointing and it doesn't make this recording any better. If there is one thing like about Skinny Puppy or Ohgr that makes me want to listen to them time and time again is the chain of thought imagery lyrics that Ogre portays (it fills out the song).

There is a lot of spoken word soundscapes on this recording as one song shapelessly bleeds into another. This is reminiscent of the tracking glitch on Last Rights. It doesn't detract fom the songs too much.

So, good album, but it has issues. I can honestly say that Mark Walk and Ogre are a great pairing. I cannot wait to see them live on Thanksgiving in Denver. I am sure the live show of this material will kick my preconceptions of the material into the stratosphere.

1 out of 5 stars

God bless music piracy. November 7, 2008
6 out of 13 found this review helpful

While I bought the first two OhGr albums, and played Welt to the point of its physical destruction, I am sorry to say that I would have been pretty disappointed, had I spent money on this mediocre entry.

If you like the contrast between upbeat melody and ominous poetry of OhGr's Welt or Sunnypsyop, you will most likely be disappointed in this melodically monotonous entry.

Welt, for me, is Ogre's best OhGr album. Each song, while varying greatly in style and reference, plays together beautifully. I bought Welt on its release and still listen to it regularly. That is to say, I still listen to the download with which I replaced the utterly ruined CD. Sunnypsyop, while somewhat of a disappointing follow-up, still managed to progress a steady evolution of the Ogre political stream-of-consciousness swimming in dynamic, charming melody.

Compared to this, Devils in My Details is a 180 degree turn into something devoid of the engaging OhGr contrast, replaced by a sound that often feels repetitive from song to song to song.

Whitevan and Timebomb, compared to every song leading up to it, have decent energies. However, were an OhGr fan to skip every song leading up to this, neither of these entries would live up to the engaging sound of his previous work.

Then as some kind of sick joke on his fans, the final track, Witness, delivers something pretty catchy. Although, it doesn't sound like OhGr, it sounds like newer Skinny Puppy.

Skinny Puppy's older work has its core audience, but that wasn't what Ohgr was about. Perhaps the newer Skinny Puppy albums are an insult to the long-time fans, but that is another issue for another review. Ohgr had a distinct sound, as mentioned above, that I feel is sorely lacking on this album. Were I interested in the sound, I would invest more effort into hearing what Ogre has to say.

3 out of 5 stars

My initial response: Disappointed... After more listens, better. November 5, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful

First off, I want to say that I did not grow up with Skinny Puppy, but discovered them after having discovered Ohgr. Therefore, my love of the psychopop first album, Welt, along with the mellower but still nice Sunnypsyup led me to blindly buy their 3rd album, Devils In My Details without first listening to it. I see this now as a possible mistake.

This album reminds me of what I heard of earlier Skinny Puppy: Clashing sounds, no decipherable lyrics, and personally, just not that great of a sound to me. I will say that I have but skimmed the surface of this CD. Perhaps after having listened to it a few more times, I will pick up on these 'tunes' and will then return here to write a new review or edit this one (if possible, I'm not sure).

However, for the moment being, I will say simply that if you're a fan of just Ohgr, listen to some samples first, as I don't think you'll like it. If you're a fan of Skinny Puppy and you did not like previous Ohgr albums, then this may be the one for you.

This was rated 3 out of 5 for the fact that this is my initial reaction and that Skinny Puppy fans will probably like it, at least more than the Ohgr fans.

Follow up after many more listens: (11-14-08)

I think the rating of my initial thoughts was dead on though I must say I do enjoy the album more than I did before. The album has to be digested as a whole rather than one song at a time. As many other people have said, this album is more of a soundscape than a traditional, more lyrical album, like the first two Ohgr albums were. You can't really pick out one song or another, as they all tend to blend together seemlessly for the most part. Really, there are two to three different sounds in each song. The thing that really grabs me as disatisfying is that you can barely hear the singer.

I think that if I had bought this CD and it was by someone else, I would probably enjoy it alot but since it was done under the Oghr name, I was expecting something similar to the last two albums and thus leads me to not liking it as much as perhaps it should be.

5 out of 5 stars

Gets better with each listen November 8, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful

Im going to make this short & sweet & just say the album is fantastic. How fantastic? If this would have been released as a Skinny Puppy album I would be 110% satisfied. In other words if you are looking for the sound of previous Ohgr albums proceed with caution. Industrial bliss awaits within.

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