Puppy (album)
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Puppy is the ninth and most recent album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by British
United Kingdom
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 electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 group Fluke
Fluke (band)
Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager...

, first released in August 2003. The album contains a variety of genres, spanning from house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

 to ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 and even including a Blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 track, "Blue Sky".

The release of the album was significantly delayed by a change to the band's record label, switching from Virgin Records
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

 offshoot Circa to One Little Indian.

"Snapshot" was featured in Need For Speed Underground.

A version of "Another Kind of Blues", renamed "Zion", was used for the underground rave scene in the 2003 film The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by the Wachowskis. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15,...

.

The track "YKK" was used in the 2010 film The Experiment.

Six of the tracks on the album had previously been released on a Virgin Records promotional release, Xmas Demos.

Track listing

  1. "Snapshot" - 4:09
  2. "My Spine" - 7:22
  3. "Another Kind of Blues" - 4:37
  4. "Hang Tough" - 5:27
  5. "Switch/Twitch
    Switch (Fluke song)
    "Switch" is a single by the English electronic music band Fluke. It is the band's last official single using the alias Fluke to date although it has been followed by the white label vinyl release Bullet 2005 which does not appear to be an official "on-label" release by the band.Switch was featured...

    " - 9:33
  6. "YKK" - 6:45
  7. "Expo" - 5:18
  8. "Electric Blue" - 6:34
  9. "Baby Pain" - 5:44
  10. "Nebulus" - 5:57
  11. "Blue Sky" - 5:48
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