Product Review

2011 album from British rapper Mike Skinner AKA The Streets. Computers And Blues crams everything Mike Skinner has learnt in the course of his very personal five album odyssey into a package as irresistibly box-fresh as his game-changing 2002 debut Original Pirate Material. In the course of this infectiously upbeat, tune-packed finale, the sound of The Streets goes back to basics at the same time as expanding in all directions. Every one of these songs worms it's way into the back of your head with the same insidious originality that first grabbed our attention in the days when the idea of a British rapper still seemed like a contradiction in terms.