NEW ALBUM FROM THE STREETS
EVERYTHING IS BORROWED OUT OCTOBER 7 ON VICE RECORDS
 Mike Skinner - The Streets |
Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, will be delivering his fourth album, everything is borrowed October 7 on Vice Records. Never one to take the same approach twice, Skinner is contemplating the impermanent nature of life this time around. Skinner has made a record to console the lonely and bring a smile to the saddest visage. Applying his homespun hip-hop sensibility to real instruments, Skinner comes up with sing-a-long musings on such unconventional subjects as religion ("Alleged Legends"), evolution ("The Way of the Dodo"), biological destiny ("On the Edge of a Cliff"), and male friendship ("The Sherry End"). From the first time people heard The Streets' Mercury Prize-nominated debut Original Pirate Material, they couldn't make their minds up whether the person making this music was black or white, from London or the Midlands, serious or a joker. Having given the world plenty of time to get acclimated, Skinner now rediscovers his old irrepressible buoyancy and takes his trademark stop-start lyrical flow to entirely new places.
Watch "The Escapist" video and receive a free download of the track at vicerecords.com/thestreetseib.
British MC Mike Skinner is a pale-faced poet laureate, the geezer is so real it hurts. -SPIN
Mike Skinner is to hazy slacker downtime what Hunter S. Thompson is to Americana: a shrewd chronicler, a dizzying blurrer of creative forms. -INTERVIEW
It's important to note that Mike Skinner (aka the Streets) is pop music's rarest commodity: a singular talent, implausibly imaginative. -ESQUIRE
Skinner's ear for language and detail is vivid and hilarious. Call it Zen Hooliganism -ROLLING STONE
The Streets tour dates available here.
Preview tracks off everything is borrowed at www.myspace.com/thestreets.
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