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Feb 15, 2011Computers and Blues, ultimately, just passes the test with a studious recount. It is neither atrociously bad nor staggeringly good: no stand-outs, no teeth-clenching clunkers. It is just okay.
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MojoApr 4, 2011It's a fine bookend for a man who defined one parochial corner of the music world. [Mar 2011, p.96]
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Feb 18, 2011The production on this unfocused album is, as usual, nothing mind-blowing. Still, Skinner has an insightful charm and a lyrical gift that makes this a respectable send-off.
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Feb 18, 2011Overall, Skinner sounds bored and tired of himself-in short, ready to move on.
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Feb 28, 2011A collection of lesser beats and hooks that somewhat returns to Original Pirate Material's sonics, Computers and Blues sadly trades that record's wonderful sense of place for a foggy vagueness that leaves Skinner's insights mostly impenetrable.
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Feb 15, 2011Computers and Blues is inimitable, flawed, and perhaps a suitable way to bow out.
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Mar 29, 2011In the end, the album is a collection of songs, mostly good, some indifferent, and all a hundred times more honest than, say, Rihanna. But it's all really to no transcendent purpose.
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UncutFeb 18, 2011The fifth and final Streets albums suffers as a result of his self-imposed exile from the hubbub he once chronicled with such verve. [Mar 2011, p.101]
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