Hometown:Brooklyn, New York
Genre:Folk
Why We're Excited:GIRL SKIN's gentle folk songs benefit enormously from their soft chamber-pop bent, which helps an ambitious, sweeping quality to Sid Simons' softly contemplative lyrics. In "Forever & Always," the strings are truly transporting: They take an otherwise lovely ode to romantic devotion and elevate it to something grandly, elegantly dramatic.
Listen to GIRL SKIN's "Forever & Always"
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