Our Two Skins

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Our Two Skins
Our Two Skins by Gordi.jpg
Studio album by
Released26 July 2020
Studio
Length42:30
Label Jagjaguwar
Gordi chronology
Reservoir
(2017)
Our Two Skins
(2020)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Beats Per Minute 83% [3]
Exclaim! 7/10 [4]
The Line of Best Fit 8.5/10 [5]

Our Two Skins is the second studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Gordi, released on 26 June 2020 through Jagjaguwar and Liberation. [6]

Contents

Our Two Skins has been nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album at the 2020 ARIA Music Awards. [7]

Singles

On 25 February 2020, the first single "Sandwiches" was released. [8] The single is inspired by the loss of Payten's grandmother. [9]

The second single "Aeroplane Bathroom", which was accompanied by the announcement of the new album, was released on 24 March 2020. [10] In a press release, Payten explained the title of the single comes from how she felt "isolated" on an aeroplane and locked herself in the bathroom. [10] The music video for the single, which was directed by Kasimir Burgess, was filmed at an abandoned Aircraft boneyard just outside Bangkok, Thailand. [11]

On 6 May 2020, the third single "Volcanic" was released. The single was written in 2018 in Stockholm, and focuses on Payten struggling with her sexual identity and her parents requesting her to share it with her ailed grandmother. [12] [13] The music video for the single was filmed at her family farm in Canowindra, New South Wales. [14]

"Unready", the fourth single, was released on 9 June 2020. [15] [16]

The fifth single "Extraordinary Life" was released on 23 June 2020, and was filmed in Bangkok at the same time of making "Aeroplane Bathroom". [17] Payten explained the origins of the single: "I began recording the demo in stairwells across Europe while I was on tour with Asgeir and in most of the demo vocals you can hear distant chatter in Icelandic". [18]

Critical reception

Our Two Skins was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 79, based on 7 reviews. [1]

Track listing

Our Two Skins track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Goodwin's" (Intro)0:19
2."Aeroplane Bathroom"5:44
3."Unready"3:42
4."Sandwiches"3:58
5."Volcanic"3:13
6."Radiator"2:55
7."Extraordinary Life"3:41
8."Hate the World"3:44
9."Look Like You"3:54
10."Limits"3:31
11."Free Association"4:00
12."Sandwiches" (A02SK Mix)3:49

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes. [19]

Musicians

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Chart performance for Our Two Skins
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [20] 18

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