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Track: Skinshape – ‘Losing My Mind’: charting lockdown in blissful six-string shimmer

  • February 26, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
DORSET’S languid, blissful Skinshape, the musical mask of Will Dorey, released two excellent and very different albums as 2020 ground us down elsewhere: the Afropop highlife stylings of Umoja, and…
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NEWS: Come ‘see’ Skinshape – he’s live streaming a free gig tomorrow

  • January 13, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
AFTER a brace of luscious albums in the latter half of last year, Umoja and Arrogance Is The Death Of Men (check out our reviews here and here, respectively), Will…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Skinshape – ‘Arrogance Is The Death Of Men’: chilled guitar odysseys

  • November 30, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
Arrogance Is The Death Of Men is such a different creature to Skinshape's last, Umoja. It's got that guitar thing going that Will does so wonderfully; lyrically, you can hear the catharsis of this year, the trials and tribulations. It's a lovely record full of emotion and guitar that helps usher in the end of this year. Win.
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TRACK: Skinshape – ‘Another Day’: second languid cut teases for the December album

  • November 22, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
IT’S BEEN days, mere days, since Will Dorey, the quiet, guitar-playing minor genius behind Skinshape, dropped his last single, Arrogance Is The Death Of Men – a sun-blissed shuffle, languid…
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TRACK: Skinshape – ‘Arrogance Is The Death Of Men’: shimmering bliss with a wise message about where we’re at

  • November 15, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
NOT AN artist content to rest on his laurels, ever restless, ever exploring, Will Dorey, who records as Skinshape, is set to release his second full-length album of the year;…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Skinshape – ‘Umoja’: a fine interweaving of Afro-Anglo guitar pop

  • August 31, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
DORSET-born Will Dorey is a man with a far-reaching, eclectic musical vision, which he gives to the world via the medium of his recording alias Skinshape. He’s a fellow traveller…
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TRACK: Skinshape – ‘The Sun’: shimmering Afro-Anglo guitars trail fifth LP

  • August 26, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
SKINSHAPE, the London-by-way-Dorset recording artist, is all set to drop his fifth album for Lewis Recordings on the first Friday in September. If you’ve been over to Skinshape’s world before,…
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