Taste Test: Pieternel embraces it all with ‘Underneath This Skin’
The singer-songwriter’s latest is ripe for summer playlists.
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Pieternel bravely stands in the sun. Her nerves have calmed, her backbone straight, and the horizon stretches out before her. Her feet are planted in the earth, uncovering the topsoil to bare remarkable beauty beneath. That’s the experience in hearing her new song “Underneath This Skin,” the titular cut to a forthcoming LP. “All the songs I’ve sung / All the wars I have won / They linger within,” she sings with resolve. Whatever it may be – the good, the bad, the ugly – it’s all a part of her now. She takes the past in her cupped hands and breathes in the residue. An expressive, explosive performance made to dazzle the eardrums; Pieternel more than delivers an anthem for summer.
