''Skins'' is the eighth studio album by American band

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, released in 2011 on Scrawny Records. The album was released in CD, LP and deluxe double CD formats as well as for download and streaming. The deluxe double CD edition included a disc of demos. The band's previous album, '' Three Easy Pieces'' (2007), had been their first after an almost decade-long layoff during which the band became a part-time concern and singer-guitarist

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made solo and side-project recordings. ''Skins'' followed relatively swiftly, after another four years. The band produced it themselves, recording both at home and in Boston-area recording studios.

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singer and solo artist

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guests as a singer on one track. Most of the tracks were mixed by

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, who had co-produced their third album ''

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'' (1992), and Adam Taylor, with the remainder mixed by Janovitz's side-project bandmate Tom Polce. The album is described by

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as having had "generally favourable reviews", with a Metascore of 72, while

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gives it a rating of 6.7.

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's Mark Deming calls it "a personal and introspective work", that "as reflects a band of forty-somethings ..deals with the stuff of grown-up lives."

Track listing

All songs written by Buffalo Tom (

, Chris Colbourn, Tom Maginnis). # "Arise, Watch" – 2:39 # "She's Not Your Thing" – 2:04 # "Down" – 4:27 # "Don't Forget Me" – 4:07 # "Guilty Girls" – 2:23 # "Miss Barren Brooks" – 3:11 # "Paper Knife" – 3:38 # "Here I Come" – 3:02 # "Lost Weekend" – 4:06 # "The Hawks & the Sparrows" – 4:10 # "The Big Light" – 4:04 # "The Kids Just Sleep" – 3:15 # "Out of the Dark" – 4:10 # Unlisted reprise of "Don't Forget Me" – 1:10 (in some versions extends track 13 to 5:34)

Personnel

* Jon Aanestad - violin on "The Hawks & the Sparrows" *

- vocals on "Don't Forget Me" *

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- lead guitar on "Paper Knife" * Sean Staples - mandolin on "Don't Forget Me" * Buffalo Tom (

, Chris Colbourn, Tom Maginnis) - all other instruments, production * Joe Tooley, Matt Tahaney, Jon Lupfer - engineers * Tom Polce - mixing *

and Adam Taylor - mixing

References

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