omg i knew skim was gonna make it!! all her hard work paid off!!! Ur the best skim-she so amaing playing with her was an honor drumming korean style with her...

This artist is smart, smooth and an amazing live performer. A real original - not so easy to find in music world increasingly overflowing with dumbed-down, mass produced, cookie-cutter acts. If you like hiphop and dance beats, an appreciate social consciousness and criticality, buy buy buy this.

Two songs into this brilliantly accessible 22 song debut, we get a window into Skim's motivation: "I'm holding too much in," she vents with beautiful frustration, and as quickly as that, all bets are off. Taking the essential elements of streetwise alternative hip hop and smoothing it out with acoustic folk and core R&B elements, vocally she is capable of throwing lyrical darts like a veteran battle rapper or holding back on the ferocity and whispering supple melodies that are the backbone of the more laid back tracks. Clearly, the driving force here has to be the lyrics, and she is equally versatile in approaching what she says. Embracing scarcely referenced aspects of her Korean background, she shows love for her family, reminds us of her love for the streets, and exemplifies an undying dedication to the arts. Rarely does something that seems like it should be so abstract work so well, but this is definitely an exception.