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- Summary: The first full-length studio release from British rock band Skunk Anansie in over nine years was recorded in Los Angeles by David Sitek.
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- Record Label: Frontiers Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Metal
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May 27, 2025The album’s sense of emotional investment and creative rejuvenation reaches a sublime apex with the closing track, Meltdown. Skin’s delicate vocals give the song about a lonely breakdown a raw, disarming beauty.
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MojoMay 27, 2025This is the band taking stock, creating a record that has a bleak, sonically rich beauty. [Jul 2025, p.88]
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May 27, 2025They’ve never released an album that embraces creativity this openly. My Greatest Moment, for example, is full of ear-catchingly extracurricular sounds – the sort of thing artists in the NIN-to-Starset bracket specialise in, but without sounding like either. Life’s truth might be painful sometimes, but it’s rarely sounded better.
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May 27, 2025Their alt.rock energy remains, but their overwrought nu-metal bombast is dialled down. [Jul 2025, p.74]
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May 27, 2025Ignore the occasionally terrible lyrics (rhyming artist with “fartist” for example) and The Painful Truth contains some of their most heartfelt work.
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Record CollectorJun 12, 2025Where they step into new territory is with Skin's restrained vocals and more electronic elements: whether you enjoy the ethereal synth of Shame and This Is Not Your Life will depend on your taste for stripped down beats and dark textures. [Jul 2025, p.105]