'Fake Chemical State', the second solo album from the singer from Brixton, marks a return to time-tested virtues. Now a proper infusion punk drives the musical engine. The fans will be delighted. Skin herself raves that her new opus is "radiant, quick-vivid, bright awake and dirty." In fact, the artist famous for her animalistic stage performance, who had earned the reputation of a teething predator as a frontwoman of Skunk Anansie already in the nineties, surprisingly recorded a rather introverted and sinistre album with her solo debut "Fleshwounds" released two years ago. Just like a shot animal licking the wounds. The new songs are all the more vital and unbridled: "The new album is full of joie de vivre, I go out of me again, like a little disheveled child who demands all the attention with his waking spirit."
Skin has worked on the album's ten new songs for almost all year 2005 and found that mix of clever mind-flash and deep-seated infidelity, clever puns and igniting beats that makes them so unique. Fake Chemical State is substantially rough and challenging. "This album shows how I am currently turning around in the world", according to the singer, who has established a second domicile in Ibiza. "I started working as a DJ and show myself much more in public. I visit clubs and watch bands." Skin has a pronounced preference for new, fresh bands such as Bloc Party, Clor, White Teeth and the Noisettes. The anarchist temperament of Skin, which she has been demonstrating with every stage performance for ten years and that is powerful enough to put you in a true intoxication with bare music, this temperament can also be felt on the new album. Whether on dance pieces like "Reason" or emotional ballads like "Purple" and "Falling".
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