Pelembe, Skinny - Hardly The Same Snake LP (color viny)

Skinny Pelembe finds the courage to foreground his gravelly baritone in these gloriously genre-agnostic productions. But it also meant branching out beyond the safety net to figure out the artist he truly wants to be. Determined that the album shouldn't sound like a band record, but equally mustn't feel "too button push-y", Skinny assembled songs by sampling instrumentation originally recorded live, including chopped and looped versions of the brilliantly complex beats played by Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics. It was a painstaking process that paid off, resulting in an album fathoms ahead of it's promising predecessor, and one that honestly reflects Skinny's creative evolution.

Tracklist:
1 Same Eye Colour
2 Hardly the Same Snake
3 Deadman Deadman Deadman
4 Don't Be Another
5 Oh Silly George
6 Charabanc
7 Like a Heart Won't Beat
8 Well, There's a First
9 Secret Hiding Place

The idea of forging your own path - and shedding skin, so to speak - is integral to Hardly The Same Snake. It's a defiantly outward-looking record contemplating family, religion and major life milestones, from parenthood to death.