Skin
 |
Skin (1986) is one of Hammill’s albums which impresses the least on a first listen. As with a later album, In A Foreign Town, the production on Skin is “plastic”, especially the drum sounds. Painting By Numbers with its cheesy Casiotone trumpety sounds is one of the tracks that suffer heavily.
There are some great songs, but the album as a whole comes across as half baked as a result of the indifferent production. In other words, Skin could have been so much better. |
Standout tracks are After The Show and the epic Now Lover. Some issues of the CD feature an additional track, You Hit Me Where I Live.