14 tracks · 44 min
Skin & Earth is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Lights. The album was released on September 22, 2017, released through Warner Bros. Records. The album was preceded by release of her single "Giants", as well as three other songs released promotionally. The album has charted number three in Canada and ninety-fifth in the US. Similar to her past albums, Skin & Earth incorporates electronic and pop elements. Lights created the album alongside her comic book of the same name, which was initially released July 2017. Lights' latest and final issue in the series was released December 13, 2017, and a trade paperback is planned to be released April 3, 2018. Lights claimed in an interview with Billboard that she has always linked comic books and music together, but this is her first time creating a concept album based on her own comic book series, which is illustrated and written by herself through Dynamite Entertainment. The comic book features the story of a girl named Enaia Jin who is looking for hope in a post-apocalyptic world. Lights explains that in the comic series, Enaia "becomes entangled with a dark spiritual friend who in turn becomes much more connected to t…
