I Started A Garden by Her Skin: Album Review

by Damien Reid November 9, 2022

November 9, 2022

I Started A Garden by Her Skin: Album Review

25-year-old Italian singer and songwriter Sara Ammendolia a.k.a. Her Skin has released her debut album “I Started A Garden” after sowing her passion for music from a very young age into several singles.

The first song “Bones” is about longing to be welcomed by a new person. The next song “Confident” tells you that it’s okay to feel awful, spend time doing nothing and do whatever. It’s a self-acceptance anthem. “Older” is about requiring alone time to grow, think, study, and love. “Sober” is about the outrage you feel after being cheated on. Sara says it’s the dumbest song on her album. “Heavy-Hearted” is about attempting to move on but knowing you haven’t. It’s about being ghosted and still wishing them happy birthday, vowing you’d never call them again but continually checking your phone and pretending to be okay even when you run into them. “Suitable” is about spontaneous love, which is always better compared to something that’s forced. “Changing” is about being unable to let go of a longtime friendship. “Forget Me” is about recognizing you hurt each other by breaking up. “It’s Hard to Breathe/ I Started a Garden” was written during the pandemic. It’s about not wanting to miss someone and keeping busy with houseplants to grow, learn and heal.

Overall, the album “I Started A Garden” sums up the confusion of being in your twenties, the complicated human feelings shared with love interests, and friends, and grappling with feelings of isolation, nostalgia, and feeling out of place.