Skin (Peter Hammill album)

Skin
Studio album by Peter Hammill
Released	March 1986
Recorded	1985
Studio	Sofa Sound and The Wool Hall
Genre	Art rock
Length	38:21
Label	Foundry
Producer	Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
The Margin (1985) Skin (1986) And Close As This (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Melody Maker	(bent on success)
Vox	(challenging)

Skin is the 14th studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on vinyl on Foundry Records in 1986 and later re-released on CD on Virgin Records.

The album was notable for spawning a Peter Hammill single, "Painting by Numbers". The B-side was the non-album track "You Hit Me Where I Live".

The album sees Hammill employing the Yamaha DX7, the first commercially successful digital synthesiser, an instrument which was typical for the sound of the 1980s and which he plays until today. He also made use of an Emu Drumulator drum machine.

Track listing

All songs by Peter Hammill, except where indicated.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Skin"	4:12
2.	"After The Show"	4:15
3.	"Painting By Number"	4:00
4.	"Shell"	4:10
5.	"All Said And Done"	3:35
Total length:		20:12

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"A Perfect Date"		4:10
7.	"Four Pails"	Chris Judge Smith, Max Hutchinson	4:24
8.	"Now Lover"		9:45
Total length:			18:09

Personnel

• Peter Hammill – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Guy Evans – percussion, drums
• Hugh Banton – cello
• Stuart Gordon – violin
• David Coulter – didjeridu
• David Jackson – saxophone
• David Luckhurst – voices

Technical

• Peter Hammill – recording engineer (Sofa Sound)
• Coach, Neil Perry, Stephen Street – recording engineers, mixing (The Wool Hall, near Bath)
• Paul Ridout – engineer, cover art
• Arun Chakraverty – original mastering

External links

• Lyrics on Hammill's Sofa Sound website