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Feb 15, 2011He may just have produced his best album.
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Feb 15, 2011Mike Skinner seems to have produced a funny, sad, emotional, honest album to rank up there with his very finest work, making us fall in love with him all over again, just as he leaves us.
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Feb 15, 2011For sheer instant appeal, the winner has to be Cyberspace and Reds, which is clearly one of the most bizarre, absurd, and exhilarating records dropped in 2011, while Computers and Blues requires a great deal of thought and introspection before it can be truly valued.
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Dec 19, 2011Based on the theme of technology and the power it holds over modern life, its 14 tracks showcase Skinner's trademark hip-hop witticisms.
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Q MagazineMar 1, 2011His fifth and final Streets album turns into his best since "A Grand Don't Come For Free." [Feb 2011, p.123]
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Feb 16, 2011It's ultimately hard not to like an album that features not one but two epiphanies, one experienced lying on the "Roof of Your Car" staring at the stars, while in album closer "Lock the Locks" a dream prompts Skinner's sudden change of career--an event engagingly depicted as an office farewell party.
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Feb 15, 2011Thematically tight, thought-provoking and packed with tunes, it is, once again, far in advance of most pop in 2011. What a way to go.
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Feb 15, 2011From its cover in, there's a knowing, bustling swagger to The Streets' finale, if only in its relishing of a quick dart for the exit.
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Feb 23, 2011Even though it's not quite his best album, Computers and Blues catches the Streets at the best he's been in years.
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Feb 15, 2011Computers & Blues doesn't match up to The Streets' visionary early promise, and there are a few songs which sound sketchy and half-hearted. But when it works, it's a reminder of what a tender, articulate and original voice Skinner has been in British pop, and how sorely he will be missed.
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Feb 15, 2011Still confused but back on form, The Streets' final album (Skinner wants to make a film) sees a return to garage beats and square-eyed observations from a life staring at pixels on screens.
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Feb 15, 2011It's not unreasonable to assume he's generally hit the mark with Computers and Blues, a heavy collection of songs with the inimitable Skinner sense of style and substance.
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Feb 15, 2011Fortunately, Computers is more farewell party than funeral, and Skinner keeps things appropriately lively.
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Feb 23, 2011This may be a confused record, but it finds its place through a universal truth it manages to hit: so Skinner can't quite find his way in this world: who among us can?
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