6.8
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#38,362
All Time
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“For years, Mike Skinner has been living his best post-superstar life – DJ-ing regularly, raising small Streets. But nearly a decade on from his two 2011 albums, he returns with a banging outing he’s dryly downplayed as “an album of rap duets”. Here are garage tunes freighted with everyman wisdom, drum’n’bass throwbacks where Skinner’s deadpan Barnet-via-Birmingham delivery meets a crush of on-poi”
“It was back in 2005 that Mike Skinner branded a career in the music industry as the hardest way to make an easy living, detailing the relentless schedule of a working musician and constant pressure to make radio friendly unit shifters. Now, almost a decade since The Streets released their last album – 2011’s ‘Computers and Blues’ – you can’t help but think that the pressure’s off somewhat. Now a s”
“The Streets legacy finds a new organic, but equally disconnected, future”
“None Of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive has been continuously pushed as the first mixtape by The Streets, neglecting the oft-forgotten and highly underrated swan-song Cyberspace & Reds, released as free online companion piece to their final album Computers & Blues. Like its sadly forgotten predecessor, this new project is highly collaborative in its approach, enlisting a crop of (mainly) you”
“On the Streets’ first album in nine years, the UK rapper returns to the simple snark of his early music, but his youthful misadventures have been replaced by the jaded pronouncements of middle age.”
