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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Killian Fox

The Streets: Computers and Blues – review

"I go out without a blink," Mike Skinner tells us on his fifth and final Streets album. He's talking about going to the pub, but the valedictory note is hard to overlook, as is the massive understatement. The geezer poet laureate is going out with a flash and a bang on his most assured record in years (which he has twinned with a sprightly online mixtape, Cyberspace and Reds). There are moments of angst amid the inevitable cultural references and stoner philosophising – "You can't google the solution to people's feelings" combines all three – but this send-off is much more fun than Skinner led us to expect.

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