First, I must apologize for the lack of updates during the past week, but I've been busy mostly with enjoying the autumn season (taking photos, editing photos, being in nature, ect.), reading a lot, attending a fun Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer gig and in general just being lazy and not wanting to write much. However, I'm back now and ready to report on some interesting releases as always. Please forgive my sluggishness. Anyway, here's a review for Second Skin
Having formed in Italy over a decade ago, Second Skin plays music in a classic Gothic rock style fairly similar to the British artists that invoked the genre in the early to mid '80's. 'Illa Exuro In Silentium' is the bands 29th musical release (that's counting comps.) and their fourth studio album altogether, though both their homepage and myspace page seem to provide little to no information on this matter.
Anyway, if I had to compare the band to anyone I'd say say they sound quite similar to the early recordings from Fields of the Nephilim both musically and fairly similarly vocally too. The music is mostly mid-paced Gothic rock with vibrant bass guitar work, catchy lead guitar, some backing synths and a bassy front man at the mic that's got a fine Carl McCoy thing going on. Of course some songs like, 'London Bridges' or 'Birthday Girl' provide the doom and gloom commonly associated with the genre too.
What I always like about this sort of music is that it almost always sounds fresh to me even though few if any of the artists involved are doing much to evolve the genre, but thats fine by me as I see no need to change an already great sound. Maybe its just a nostalgia thing, but I never get sick of this stuff, and even if some may say the genre is dead, Second Skin surely proves otherwise.
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