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The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed

By Mike Schiller

Happy and healthy aren't really adjectives normally associated with Mike Skinner's output as the Streets thus far, and perhaps that's enough to make Everything Is Borrowed worth a listen. [15 September 2008]

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By Elizabeth Black

) is running the New York Marathon this year. Seriously, he ran no less than 18 miles before the show. What the hell?!?! [26 June 2006]

The Streets: The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living

By Michael Frauenhofer

In many respects, fame has not changed Mike Skinner: he's still charismatic, he's still insecure, and he's still just as messily pessimistic. [28 April 2006]

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By Devon Powers

The Streets: A Grand Don’t Come for Free

By Adrien Begrand

Like Leigh’s film High Hopes, like Pulp’s Different Class, A Grand Don’t Come For Free is a superb, perceptive portrait of everyday British life, completely devoid of any pretentiousness, and musically, though his beats are toned down, it cements Skinner’s status as a true original in UK music.

[14 May 2004]

The Streets: A Grand Don’t Come for Free

By Marc Hogan

A Grand Don’t Come for Free is a masterpiece that makes other albums—the gray multitude of discs that fit neatly into a single genre or slap together a dozen thematically unrelated songs—seem like so many broken TVs.

[26 March 2004]

The Streets: All Got Our Runnins

By Michael Beaumont

“Give Me My Lighter Back” and “All Got Our Runnins” are every bit as strong as anything on Original Pirate Material, so if you’re skeptical about downloading the new songs, fearing that it’s either left over scraps from the OPM sessions or quickly tossed off B-side type material, fear not, it’s top-notch stuff.

[18 November 2003]

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By Jason Ladewig

The Streets: Original Pirate Material

By Matt Cibula

And if Skinner isn’t an innovator, he is at least one of the most endearing musical personalities to come along in many years: he’s tough but vulnerable, slangy but somehow correct, down with the homeys but strangely removed from it all.

[8 November 2002]