in a Bucket (A Seaside Town Made of Ice Cream, Slowly Melting)", and "Emergency Surgery". "Bring It On" and "We Haven't Turned Around" were included on the band's second compilation album, Five Men in a Hut: A's, B's and Rarities 1998–2004 (2004). Liquid Skin was packaged with Bring It On as a two-CD combo in 2003. The band's first four studio albums and Five Men in a Hut: A's, B's and Rarities 1998–2004, were collected together as 5 Album Set in 2012. Liquid Skin was reissued in 2019 as a two-CD set that included a live show, demos, and alternative versions. Ball had become the band's archivist and helped bring the reissue to fruition. Following this, the band toured across the UK Australia where they played the album in its entirety. Reception Liquid Skin was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly noted that the band had been referred to as roots rock, "but one listen to their sophomore CD shows they’re twisting those roots into strange and marvelous shapes". AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine saw the album as a "cleaner, more streamlined version" of Bring It On, adding that they perform music "that they believe to be experimental or rootsy, but not quite going far enough in either direction". NME Piers Martin also found it to be "very much like" their debut, "only bigger, even more confident and with far better production". Los Angeles Times writer Richard Cromelin said Gomez had "a free-ranging imagination, twisting and distorting and juxtaposing [their songs] with an exhilarating sense of freedom". PopMatters editor Sarah Zupko wrote that band had "picked up a few new studio tricks or two and rounded out their sound with fuller textures and better-produced mixes". She added that the "back-to-the-country-sounding songs" had a "trippy vibe," and were "just as good as ever". In a review for Rolling Stone, journalist Greg Kot wrote that "the arrangements on Liquid Skin are more substantial, beefed up with strings and horns, and the songs sturdier" than those on Bring It On. "Bring It On" reached number 21 in singles chart. "Rhythm & Blues Alibi" reached number 18. "We Haven't Turned Around" reached number 38. CMJ New Music Report ranked the album at number 13 on their list of the Top 30 Editorial Picks of 1999. PopMatters included it on their Most Memorable Albums of the year list.