Skinny Puppy – Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse

Skinny Puppy – Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse

Skinny Puppy – Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse is the influential 1986 second studio album from the pioneering Canadian industrial group. Dark, unsettling and fiercely experimental, the record helped establish Skinny Puppy's distinctive approach to electronic music, combining programmed rhythms, distorted samples, abrasive textures and heavily processed vocals.

The album opens with "One Time One Place", immediately establishing its claustrophobic electronic atmosphere, before moving into the ominous "Gods Gift (Maggot)" and the twisted reinterpretation of "Three Blind Mice". The brief "Love" provides a stark atmospheric interlude before "Stairs & Flowers" builds the tension with its pounding industrial rhythms and unsettling electronic sound design.

Side two continues with "Antagonism", "200 Years" and the relentless "Dig It", one of the album's standout tracks. The closing "Burnt With Water" stretches into a dark, expansive finale, demonstrating the band's willingness to push beyond conventional song structures.

Formed in Vancouver in 1982, Skinny Puppy became one of the most important acts in the development of industrial and electronic body music. Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse was a key early release, helping to define the group's confrontational sound and laying the groundwork for the increasingly influential records that followed.

The album's combination of EBM rhythms, industrial electronics, horror-inspired soundscapes and experimental production would go on to influence generations of industrial, electronic and alternative artists. It is particularly notable for the developing creative partnership between cEvin Key, Nivek Ogre and Wilhelm Schroeder (later known as Bill Leeb) during Skinny Puppy's formative period.

For collectors of Skinny Puppy, industrial music, EBM, dark electronic music, experimental electronics and 1980s alternative music, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse is an essential early album and an important piece of industrial music history.

Tracklist

Side A

1. One Time One Place – 5:41
2. Gods Gift (Maggot) – 4:44
3. Three Blind Mice – 3:11
4. Love – 1:42
5. Stairs & Flowers – 5:17

Side B

1. Antagonism – 5:03
2. 200 Years – 4:44
3. Dig It – 6:03
4. Burnt With Water – 7:40