The Streets review – Mike Skinner's return gets a champagne reception

Academy, GlasgowAfter seven years away, the prankster-poet of geezer garage is back, and in a boisterous, celebratory mood that the crowd enthusiastically reciprocateAfter a decade-long run of five albums that described a parabola of hedonistic excess, success, anxiety and burnout in forensic detail, Mike Skinner wrapped up the Streets in 2011. For someone who became a household name by being both overanalytical and hyper-verbal, the cherubic garage-poet has – perhaps deliberately â€â€...

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