Skin (Katie Noonan album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Skin
| type = Album
| artist = Katie Noonan
| cover = Katie-Noonan-Skin.jpg
| alt =
| released = 13 August 2007
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| length = 67:25
| label = Festival Mushroom Records
Warner Bros. Records
| producer = Andrew Klippel
| prev_title = Before Time Could Change Us
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = Second Skin
| next_year = 2008
}}
Skin is a studio album by Australian musician Katie Noonan. It was released in August 2007 and peaked at number 6 on the Australian ARIA Charts.
Skin was the first album released by Noonan as a solo artist and recorded between the time of 3 and 8 months pregnant.
Noonan says: "I love the themes I explored on this album – I was a madly in love newlywed, experiencing the miracle of pregnancy – it was quite a trip to document! Inspired by Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Vince Jones, this album was all about exploring groove for me. I learn’t a huge amount making this album and I am really grateful for the arduous journey I took with this process, as since then, it has confirmed my instinct to listen to and trust my inner voice."{{cite web|url=https://katienoonan.com/projects/solo/|title=SKIN and SECOND SKIN – KATIE NOONAN|publisher=katienoonan.com|accessdate=26 April 2016}}
Reviews
Bernard Zuel from Sydney Morning Herald said "Her first solo album finds her mostly dabbling in a kind of fluttering, '70s soul jazz reminiscent of, among others, Minnie Riperton." adding "The songs have a basement soul feel. That is, as with any number of competent jazz funk bands you may see at the Sydney venue on a Friday night, there's a groove, but apart from "Return", it never sinks in beneath the skin. Across them Noonan's lyrics are not awful but they rarely say something that couldn't have been done by a committee."{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/cd-reviews/skin/2007/08/10/1186530600040.html|title=Skin Review|publisher=www.smh.com.au|work=Bernard Zuel|date=11 August 2007|accessdate=26 April 2016}}
Track listing
- "Logic" - 2:47
- "Return" - 3:32
- "Time to Begin" - 4:25
- "Love's My Song for You" - 4:06
- "Little Boy Man" - 3:22
- "Sunshine" - 3:31
- "One Step" - 3:48
- "Home" - 4:19
- "Send Out a Little Love" - 3:51
- "Who Are You?" - 4:30
- "Bluebird" - 4:43
- "A Little Smile" - 3:05
=Bonus disc=
- "Special Ones"
- "Crazy"
- "I Think I Am"
- "Choir Girl"
- "Breathe In Now"
Charts
=Weekly charts=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col"| Chart (2007)
! scope="col"| Peak |
|---|
| scope="row"{{album chart|Australia|6|album=Skin|artist=Katie Noonan|accessdate=26 April 2016|refname="aus chart"}} |
| scope="row"| Australian Artist Albums Chart{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/issue911.pdf|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20071019140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20071020-0000/issue911.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-10-19|title=ARIA Report Week Commencing 20th August 2007|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|date=20 August 2007|accessdate=26 April 2016}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
| 1 |
=Year-end charts=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |
| scope="col"| Chart (2007)
! scope="col"| Rank |
|---|
| scope="row"| Australian Artist Albums Chart{{cite web|url=http://www.ariacharts.com.au/annual-charts/2007/australian-artist-albums-chart|title=ARIA Top 50 Australian Artists Albums 2007|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|accessdate=26 April 2016}}
| 48 |
External links
- [https://www.discogs.com/Katie-Noonan-Skin/release/1736199 "Skin" by Katie Noonan at Discogs]
References
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{{Katie Noonan}}
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Category:Festival Records albums
Category:Mushroom Records albums
Category:Pop albums by Australian artists
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