about the album

On her debut release for ONNO, Goa-based composer, producer, and visual artist Skulk (the moniker of Katyayini Gargi) presents Skin — a twelve-track, forty-minute album that marks her sophomore emergence with renewed confidence and clarity. Primarily synth-driven, the record places her voice at the centre, bold and brimming with her quirky, raw energy, and woven into inventive sound design.

Structured in two six-track halves, Skin is divided between the inside and the outside; the personal and the political.

The A side turns inward, with songs that are more literal and instructional; concerned with — how not to drown — in the everyday; the churning sea that is life.

The B side bears witness to the world beyond the self, transforming that same question — how not to drown — into a metaphor for navigating the socio-political and collective, which still feels deeply intimate. The political is personal, too.

Together, the two halves mirror a continuous oscillation between reflection and response, self and society. The album culminates with “Free”, a cathartic, tongue-in-cheek, cloud-busting anthem for moments when it all becomes too much to bear.

Skin stands as Skulk’s most assured work yet — a self-portrait in motion, where she grows more comfortable in her own skin while refining her craft as lyricist, producer, and sound sculptor.

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