the sound of Liquid Skin has been described as blues rock, rooted in American blues and folk, with elements of art rock and psychedelic music. Acoustic guitars lead the majority of the songs, which are accompanied by horns, strings, and keyboards. It has been compared to the work of Beck, the Grateful Dead, and Pearl Jam (specifically, their 1994 album No Code). They placed a bigger emphasis on vocals and harmonies; in contrast to Bring It On, which typically featured one singer per track, most of the songs on Liquid Skin had all three (Ball, guitarist Tom Gray, and guitarist Ben Ottewell). Ottewell theorised that the band's experience traveling, Australia, Europe and the United States influenced their writing. The album's title went through multiple names – God's Big Spaceship and Touching Up – before settling on Liquid Skin, which was inspired by a product they had found while in the United States. They almost called it Liquid State, though Gray it was "not as good as 'Liquid Skin'." Ball described it as a "party record", with the "general theme" being "how many different ways we can play the same song in four minutes". The sitar-driven opening track, "Hangover", deals with love and being drunk, according to Gray. It is a delta blues song that opens with Ken Nelson misquoting the opening line from Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979), followed by a loud bassline. "Revolutionary Kind" sees the band mix country and techno, recalling the work of Alabama 3. Gray wrote the song in a house on Ash Grove in Leeds; when they were recording it, the hall they were tracking in would burn down frequently. "Bring It On", the name of which alludes to the band's debut, includes a reference to that album's opening song, "Get Miles". It ends with a raga rock coda; the song was written around the same time as "Tijunana Lady" (from Bring It On), though was abandoned and left off their debut. Gray wrote "Blue Moon Rising" as a reaction to the death of Princess Diana. "Las Vegas Dealer" begins as a psychedelic piece and vocal harmonies in the vein of the Moody Blues, before incorporating Eastern rhythms. Ball said it was written about a drunken night while in Las Vegas, Nevada with Nuno Bettencourt's father. "We Haven't Turned Around" features cellos; it originally began under the title "Canderel" with a different chorus section. "Fill