Snakeskin (Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal)

SNAKESKIN is a Beirut-based duo of visionary electronic dream pop, shapeshifting above ambient and industrial undercurrents. Their music is moody, unsettling, luminous – the culmination of a decade of collaboration and friendship between producer/musician Fadi Tabbal and singer-songwriter Julia Sabra from indie trio Postcards.

On Snakeskin’s sophomore album “They Kept Our Photographs,” out on October 10, 2024 via London’s Mais Um records, the duo build their critically-acclaimed 2022 debut, dialing up the noise while keeping the celestial quality of their soundscapes intact. Lyrically, Sabra mines new depths to deliver her most vivid work yet, turning the violence around them into visceral poetry, exploring ever darker and deeper currents. Musically, Tabbal branches into new directions - adding excursions into hyperpop and electronica to the duo's industrial-drone-ambient palette.

The duo’s self-titled debut album was released on October 14, 2022, as part of the Corrosion Series –– a collaborative effort by Portland-based label Beacon Sound and Beirut-based label Ruptured. Sabra and Tabbal began working on the record in the aftermath of the August 2020 port explosion, composing their first track 'Roots' for the Ruptured-curated series The Drone Sessions in the fall of 2020.