Skin: Sanity

This particular Skin is a Boston band from the 1980s, and apart from a 12” single that came out previous to this album, this 1987 full-length was all they released (on a custom imprint, as far as I can tell). It’s all pretty much bar-band medium-rock, except “Kakania”, which is the reason I originally bought it: a dark uptempo jungle instrumental with skronky sax riffs and vocals coming through an in-the-cracks harmonizer. Boston animator Karen Aqua made it the inspiration for her animated short of the same name in 1989, and I saw it at The Flicks in Boise, Idaho in one of the first theatrical collections of animated shorts I ever saw, which got me hooked on animated shorts for life.

U Flip 4 Evry 1

Beating Me Back

Troubled Sleep

Y Am I So Cool?

Hit on the Head

Kakania (Part 1)

Kakania (Part 2)

Venus Flytrap

(When You) Grow Up

Evrythingiz Fallin

Skin Sanity

Matter Over Mind

Ha-Ha-Ha

Album audio & artwork

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