| Skin | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Katie Noonan |
| Cover: | Katie-Noonan-Skin.jpg |
| Released: | 13 August 2007 |
| Genre: | Pop, jazz |
| 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."[1]
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."[2]