The Streets ready second to last album

By Alex Young on August 29th, 2008

On October 7th, English hip-hopper Mike Skinner, or The Streets as he more commonly goes by, will unveil Everything Is Borrowed, his fourth and second to last full-length studio album. For a while, compliments of his blog, the 29-year-old rapper has been dishing the dirt on the upcoming release, describing it as as full of “peaceful positive vibes,” a characteristic the official press release now reaffirms.

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”)…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.

If one is interested in previewing this sound, Skinner is offering a taste for the price of an email address.

As mentioned, Everything Is Borrowed will mark The Streets second to last studio album, a decision which Skinner recently told Pitchfork was made because “I don’t want to repeat myself. I want it to stand as a body of work in its own right.”

I’d like to do a film, I think. That’ll be the first thing I’ll do. But I want to do it all on my own, not seek funding from anywhere else, because I’d rather it didn’t end up being the by-committee type thing you get in the film industry.

- Mike Skinner via Pitchfork

Skinner went on to note that he does expect to make music again in the future, just not under The Streets pseudonym. Expect album #5, possibly entitled Computers and Blues, and all its “45 minutes of 130 bpm-style straight spittin’” in the next couple years.

Everything Is Borrowed Tracklist:
01. Everything Is Borrowed
02. Heaven For The Weather
03. I love You More (Than You Like Me)
04. Just Thought Of Something
05. On The Flip Of A Coin
06. The Sherry End
07. Alleged Legends
08. What Are Chances Of That Like?
09. When That Day Will Be
10. Further Away
11. Strongest Person I Know
12. The Escapist