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Liquid Skin is the second album by English rock group Gomez, released on 13 September 1999 by Hut Records. Following the release of their debut studio album Bring It On (1998), the band began recording their follow up between August 1998 and June 1999 at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, and Abbey Road Studios in London. Gomez were allowed to self produce the sessions after their label heard the strength of their demos. Described as a blues rock album, Liquid Skin was compared to the work of Beck, the Grateful Dead, and Pearl Jam. Liquid Skin received generally favourable reviews from critics, many of whom found it to be a retread of Bring It On with improved production. Preceded by a two month tour of the United States, "Bring It On" was released as the lead single from Liquid Skin on 28 June 1999. Gomez appeared at a number of festivals, prior to the release of the album's second single "Rhythm & Blues Alibi" on 30 August 1999. Coinciding with the release of Liquid Skin, the band embarked on tours of the US and the UK, which were then followed by its third single "We Haven't Turned Around" on 8 November 1999. All three singles reached the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, with "Rhythm & Blues Alibi" peaking the highest at number 18.

Gomez released their debut studio album Bring It On in April 1998. It peaked at number 11 in the UK, where it won the Mercury Music Prize. All three of its singles charted on the UK Singles Chart, with "Whippin' Piccadilly" reaching the highest at number 35. Sessions for it began at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool in August 1998. By November 1998, the band were working at Abbey Road Studios, where they recorded strings, before moving to a mansion near Hastings. Guitarist Ian Ball said they moved so that they would be able to "recreate the home recorded sound of the first album, but in grander surroundings". They took a break to play a US tour with Mojave 3 in April and May 1999. Gomez had collectively recorded 32 songs during the recording sessions; they had finished in June 1999.

Musically, the sound of Liquid Skin has been described as blues rock, rooted in American blues and folk, with elements of art rock and psychedelic music. It has been compared to the work of Pearl Jam (specifically their 1994 album No Code), Beck, and the Grateful Dead. The album's title went through multiple names – God's Big Spaceship and Touching Up – before settling on Liquid Skin, which was inspired by a product they had found while in the United States. Ball described it as a "party record", with the "general theme" being "how many different ways we can play the same song in four minutes". It is a delta blues song that opens with Ken Nelson misquoting the opening line from Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979), followed by a loud bassline. "Revolutionary Kind" sees the band mix country and techno, recalling the work of Alabama 3. Gray wrote the song in a house on Ash Grove in Leeds; when they were recording it, the hall they were tracking in would burn down frequently. "Bring It On", the name of which alludes to the band's debut, includes a reference to that album's opening song, "Get Miles". It ends with a raga rock coda; the song was written around the same time as "Tijuana Lady" (from Bring It On), though was abandoned and left off their debut. "Las Vegas Dealer" begins as a psychedelic piece and vocal harmonies in the vein of the Moody Blues, before incorporating Eastern rhythms. Ball said it was written about a drunken night while in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Nuno Bettencourt's father. "We Haven't Turned Around" features cellos; it originally began under the title "Canderel" with a different chorus section. "Rhythm & Blues Alibi" was written by Ball while attending university; Ottewell saw it as "taking the piss out of R&B music" and "the band and probably me, particularly!". Ball was playing guitar with a Zoom Sampletrak sampler, when Gray suggested using some of the parts from it as the song's bridge section. Gray described the song as being a dig at a lot of "landfill RnB in the late 90s, but we were also saying that we were dicks appropriating black culture". "California" is a slow building song that incorporates droning, and switches to a boogie; throughout this, the song details escaping California. The closing track, "Devil Will Ride", uses a vocoder and marching band horns, concluding with a Beatlesque fadeout.

Gomez embarked on a tour of the US in April and May 1999, where they were supported by Mojave 3; they cancelled shows in Europe to focus on the US. On 20 June 1999, Liquid Skin was announced for release in three months' time. They then appeared at the Glastonbury, T in the Park and V Festivals over the next two months. "Rhythm & Blues Alibi" was released as a single on 30 August 1999. Two versions were released on CD: the first with "The Best in Town" and "So", while the second included a "pre mellotron" version of "Rhythm & Blues Alibi", "ZYX", and a live version of "Tijuana Lady" (under the name "Tijuanalaska"). Liquid Skin was released through Hut Records on 13 September 1999; its US release occurred a week later. Coinciding with this, the band went on a tour of the US and then the UK in October and November 1999. "We Haven't Turned Around" was released as a single on 8 November 1999. Two versions were released on CD: the first with "Flight" and "Rosemary", while the second featured an "X Ray" version of "We Haven't Turned Around", "Gomez in a Bucket (A Seaside Town Made of Ice Cream, Slowly Melting)", and "Emergency Surgery". "Bring It On" and "We Haven't Turned Around" were included on the band's second compilation album, Five Men in a Hut: A's, B's and Rarities 1998–2004 (2004). Liquid Skin was packaged with Bring It On as a two CD combo in 2003. The band's first four studio albums and Five Men in a Hut: A's, B's and Rarities 1998–2004, were collected together as 5 Album Set in 2012. Liquid Skin was reissued in 2019 as a two CD set that included a live show, demos, and alternative versions. Ball had become the band's archivist and helped bring the reissue to fruition.

Liquid Skin was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly noted that the band had been referred to as roots rock, "but one listen to their sophomore CD shows they’re twisting those roots into strange and marvelous shapes". PopMatters included it on their Most Memorable Albums of the year list.