The Streets: Computers and Blues - review

(679)If this is the final Streets album, then Mike Skinner is leaving as he came in: talking about getting stoned over homemade beats. Whether you think his calculated artlessness reinvented British urban music or just took the mickey a bit, Skinner has remained true to himself. Computers and Blues filters its poppy hooks through neat tricks, which when they work – as on Without Thinking – are hard to resist. Sometimes, though, they don't: Those That Don't Know sounds like a rare-groove revi...

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