Skin Turns to Glass

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Skin Turns to Glass
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 27, 2003 (2003-10-27)
Genre Drone metal
Length44:07(Original edition)
79:56 (Reissue)
Label NOTHingness Records
The End Records
Re-Issue [1]
Nadja chronology
Touched
(2003/2007)
Skin Turns to Glass
(2003)
Corrasion
(2003/2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork Media (7.0/10) [3]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Skin Turns to Glass is the second full-length album by drone doom band Nadja. [1] It was released on October 27, 2003, by NOTHingness Records and was limited to 120 copies. The album was made when Nadja was still a solo effort of Aidan Baker's, prior to Leah Buckareff joining in 2005.

Contents

The album was re-issued by The End Records on April 1, 2008, with the entire album remastered and extended (with the exception of "Slow Loss"). Also, this edition of the album contains an untitled 28 minute ambient bonus track played after "Slow Loss."

Critical reception

The Quietus wrote: "The attention to detail is never anything less than immaculate. The sensuous drag of ‘Skin Turns To Glass’ features squalls of multi-tracked guitar lines producing birdsong as a veritable Glen Branca of a guitar orchestra provides the snail-slow rumble." [5] Exclaim! called the album "yet another display of densely layered guitars, buried vocals, achingly slow build-ups and barely audible drum machine patterns." [1]

Track list

Original edition

No.TitleLength
1."Sandskin"11:40
2."Skin Turns to Glass"12:21
3."Slow Loss"20:06
Total length:44:07

2008 Reissue

No.TitleLength
1."Sandskin"14:25
2."Skin Turns to Glass"17:58
3."Slow Loss"19:00
4.Untitled28:33
Total length:79:56

Personnel

2008 Re-Issue

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References

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  2. Rivadavia, Eduardo. Skin Turns to Glass at AllMusic
  3. "Nadja: Skin Turns to Glass / Bliss Torn from Emptiness". Pitchfork.
  4. "Nadja - Skin Turns To Glass | The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk.
  5. "The Quietus | Reviews | Nadja". The Quietus.