Search - Skip Peri :: Naked

Recorded mostly in a spare bedroom, "Naked" is the offspring of the music industry?s new breed; a modest, accessible pop record made for peanuts. Skip surrounded himself with people he trusted and proceeded to get the sounds he heard in his head onto disc. He tapped first-time producer Jonathan Kingham to produce and The A-Team (Evan Brubaker & Troy Glessner) to mix. Ironically, despite his small town style, "Naked" has a sound that is decidedly urban. "Naked" fuses drum loops and tight acoustic guitars with pulsing bass lines to deliver songs that make you both forget and remember at once. From the anthemic opening track "You Don?t Know Me Anymore" to the soft atmospherics of the title track, Skip shifts effortlessly from an angry dismissal to a subtly suggestive come-on. His voice is the focus of his music, his lyrics a balance between poetry and raw emotion that walks the tightrope of the tragic loss of his daughter; he infuses each song with an energy and intensity that is both compellingly original and achingly familiar. The end result is a musical mash of Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, and Bobby Womack.