Skin Turns To Glass was originally released in 2003 on a small CD-R label. The duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff have re-recorded the album, which got a very limited original release. The songs on the CD are epic, with the four tracks clocking in at 80 minutes. Nadja's music has been classified as drone, ambient and experimental, among other things, and all of those descriptions fit.

The songs are thickly layered with doomy guitar riffs, atmospheric keyboards and a slow majestic pace. The low end rumbles while the myriad of other things happening in each song ebbs and flows between crushing heaviness and a glimmer of light. Dissonant distortion and fuzzy guitars ease into ambient and experimental passages before the barrage begins again. The album wraps up with a nearly 30 minute bonus track that is a bit different than the rest of the songs. It floats along for nearly the whole song before ratcheting up the intensity for the last couple of minutes.

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(CD cover courtesy The End Records)