Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, will be delivering his fourth album, everything is borrowed October 7th 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, Mike 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:
http://vicerecords.com/thestreetseib/
"British MC Mike Skinner is a pale-faced poet laureate Š 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 talentŠimplausibly imaginative." – ESQUIRE
"Skinner’s ear for language and detail is vivid and hilarious. Call it Zen Hooliganism – ROLLING STONE
Skinner, though, is life’s real deal, an artists who knows that, if rendered honestly, even mundane experiences can produce the most powerful music." – NEW YORK MAGAZINE
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