By Michael Gurtner / Berner Zeitung
Good riddance: Once hailed his debut with the dance music Messiah, Mike Skinner, now adopted by his project, The Streets. "Computers and Blues" is a swan song, which once touched powerful, sometimes belonging annoying - and with the coming of the British summer festival to the belts.
"The Streets is the future of dance music." (Music magazine "New Musical Express", 2002)
"I had enough of The Streets. Had" (Mike Skinner, The Streets , 2008).
Six years lie between these two Statements. Six years, was hailed in which Michael Geoffrey Skinner from the unknown, pale-faced young man to dance music Messiah. In which he first earned praise from critics - and then had to put their beatings, as he his trademark realistic stories about the lifestyle of British youth, replaced for his third album with reflections on that celebrity. Six years in which Mike Skinner four plates placed in the top ten of the British album charts. And at some point for the now 32-year-old from Birmingham was clear: The Streets is a dead end. So he decided to take one last Streets album. "It \u0026lt;computer and Blues> means and it is about the dance and trash-talk, "announced Skinner.
the pulse of his generation
course, this is less than half the truth. Mike Skinner had indeed always been a big mouth, he finally became world famous with his brash chant. But there was always more than just hot air, as they produce too many rappers with fondness. Mike Skinner does not talk trash. Mike Skinner has to say. On his stupendous debut "Original Pirate Material", he explained about UK garage beats between the sensibilities of his generation, "Too Much Brandy" and failed relationships ("It's Too Late"). The cover of the first album graced an anonymous suburban block with a single lit windows - a symbol of the uniformity of everyday life and the desire to escape from it. On the new album takes on the last Briton to the thread: This time the building is a little fancier, but no less anonymous. Only two windows are illuminated in red, behind one is a lonely person.
pixels on the ultrasound image
Everything more or less as before, then? Not at all. Although relationships still play an important role - for example in the Facebook romance "OMG." But there are personal experiences added in the last few years that have influenced Mike Skinner sustainable. The most impressive and most memorable in the song "blip on a screen," an ode to his unborn child. This can only be seen as "100 pixels on an ultrasound image" - brood, leaving the father but already, what will be one day out of it. As a touching melancholy creeps to hip-hop beats and chanting - and the listener is weak. Wow! "Trying to Kill Me" tells the story of Skinner's fight against the Chronic fatigue syndrome that struck him in 2009: "For this chronic fatigue , there's no tonic it seems" ("For these chronic fatigue It seems "to be no tonic), the 32-year-old rhymes. It is the most intimate and best moments of "Computers and Blues." Quite different to the CD launch with Computergefiepe, brass samples and slow beats, "Inside Outside" is sketchy, is repetitive to boredom.
annoying and wildly
Worse "Roof of Your Car" drags with Autotune vocal distortions on the nerves. Conciliatory vote in favor of the disco grooves and witty verses of "Puzzled by People" ("You can not google the solutions to people's feelings") and the electric guitar riffs in the frenetic "Going Through Hell," where Mike Skinner asserts: "At the end of the tunnel is always light. "This also applies to the end of the Streets. And after the last tour, which takes him to the belts in July Festival, Skinner is free to explore new roads. It will be interesting.
The Streets: "Computers and Blues" (679/Warner).
SOURCE Berner Zeitung
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