Skins by Buffalo Tom

Skins, Buffalo Tom's eighth studio album, came out in 2011 on Scrawny Records, a mere four years after Three Easy Pieces, which by this band's recent standards counts as a sprint. That previous record had ended an almost decade-long silence, with Buffalo Tom running as a part-time concern while Bill Janovitz chased solo and side projects. This time the Boston trio produced themselves, cutting the songs at home and in local studios, and handed most of the mixing to Adam Taylor and Paul Q. Kolderie, who had co-produced Let Me Come Over back in 1992.

Janovitz on guitar and most lead vocals, Chris Colbourn on bass and vocals and Tom Maginnis on drums sound like grown men writing about grown-up lives: reflective, weathered, still ringing with big, bruised guitar chords. Belly's Tanya Donelly drops in to sing on one track, and the reviews came back generally warm.

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