More about: Joy Crookes

South London’s Joy Crookes has just announced her debut album Skin, arriving 15 October on Insanity Records. The previous single ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’, which gathered praise from all over the industry, will also feature on the album.

The title track ‘Skin’ is simply gorgeous – the most beautiful song you’ll hear today. The simple piano and muted strings backing allow uplifting lyrics like “The skin that you’re given was made to be lived in / you’ve got a life, you’ve got a life worth living”. ‘Skin’ is positive and uplifting, without being over the top or insincere. It’s incredible that she wrote all of the songs on the record before the age of 22.

Crookes described her debut album:

“Skin is my debut album and the proudest work I have made to date. It is an autobiographical body of work covering subjects from casual sex to generational trauma, abuse of power and mental health.”

Skin Tracklist:

1. I Don’t Mind
2. 19^th Floor
3. Poison
4. Trouble
5. When You Were Mine
6. To Lose Someone
7. Unlearn You
8. Kingdom
9. Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
10. Wild Jasmine
11. Skin
12. Power
13. Theek Ache

Skin arrives 15 October. Preorder it here.

More about: Joy Crookes