Britrock legends Skunk Anansie find new focus in slate-clearing comeback album that embraces new sounds.
You face a dilemma when most people know you for music created three decades ago. While proud of your legacy, like any normal human being you’ve changed since then. Perhaps this – the compromise of meeting expectation with representing who you actually are – is the reason Skunk Anansie haven’t released an album for nine years.
In the end, Skin and her loyal cohorts have simply taken the plunge. Producer David Sitek (Weezer, Chelsea Wolfe, Foals) has encouraged them to drop everything and make new sounds using just fragments of that legacy. As if that wasn’t challenging enough, bassist Cass…