by
The Streets
- Record Label: Vice / 679
- Release Date: Apr 25, 2006

- Summary: Unlike his previous release (which told an album-length story about a fictitious character), Mike Skinner's third Streets album is autobiographical in nature, dealing with the myriad problems that result from being rich and famous.
- Record Label: Vice / 679
- Genre(s): Indie, Rap
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 36
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Mixed: 9 out of 36
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Negative: 1 out of 36
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His comic timing and mixture of slangs--not to mention his musical conception... are all so much more fully developed that he's actually made a record that's fun to play in the background.
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Most artists are well-aware of the pitfalls of the difficult third album, of course, and try to disguise their on tour / hotel room songs - but when has Mike Skinner ever been most artists?
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The beats and lyrics get better with each listen.
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The Streets seem to be maturing musically: Skinner sings more often here and flows more nimbly but every bit as distinctively, and the production is even getting slightly more complex. What the album lacks, then, is any real emotional punch on the level of Skinner’s previous work.
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"Hardest Way" is good, but perhaps not good enough to win him any new fans.
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A Behind the Music episode converted into a diffuse, rave-schooled song cycle.
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The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living is an exercise in empty nothingness. But it’s not Bacchanalian coked-out excess nothingness, it's the joyless hollow-eyed actions of a man who is waiting for the next fix and doesn't care what bullshit has to come out of his lips in order to get paid.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 17
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Mixed: 2 out of 17
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Negative: 3 out of 17
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DuncanAug 3, 2006Brilliant. His best album yet.
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AlexNApr 27, 2006
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DavidCMay 7, 2006
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KelvinApr 25, 2006
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AViewAMOct 30, 2006
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JulianMApr 26, 2006Generic raps. I don't think this flies.
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BoLApr 26, 2006
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