By Brian Johnston
The Streets
Computers and Blues
Vice Records
February 23
Having suffered from epilepsy since age seven, Michael Skinner, or “The Streets” has pulled through to make quite a name for himself on the festival scene while playing many local shows around Europe by creating a show that involves the audience with every song.
His two signature crowd-controlling requests include “Go Low” (the whole audience drops to the floor) and “Go Moses” (audience parts down the middle while Skinner runs to the back and crowd surfs back to the stage). Each, of course, has varying success.
His latest and final installment, Computers and Blues, released earlier this month, is considered to be far from his other records because of its dark and futuristic tones.
“A Blip on a Screen” is arguably his most personal track on the album. He claims, “A blip on a screen, you don’t know me/ I think about you and what you’ll grow to be,”-speaking of his unborn child who is due in April, Skinner believes there is no greater feeling than becoming a father.
From his previous album, The Streets hasn’t changed much in his lyrical style, always telling it like it is and making sure that his audience is able to connect with what he is saying on a personal level.
His title track from “Everything Is Borrowed” is a key example of that with lyrics such as, “I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love/ Everything else is just borrowed.”
With his fifth and final album of his contract complete, The Streets plans on taking a break from the music scene to focus on his new family.
This is the worst review I've EVER read.
What an awful and awfully written review. The writer barely mentions the new album (only one song is actually mentioned) and regurgitates crap he read on other websites. Ugh.