“The Streets is Michael Geoffrey Skinner, born 27 November 1978. He was brought up in Birmingham and now lives in Brixton. He started messing around with keyboards at the age of 5. He took several jobs in fast food restaurants to finance a failed attempt to launch his own record label. As a teenager he built a recording studio in a cupboard in his bedroom. At 19 he went to Australia for a year, taking his sampler along for company.
The first two Streets albums were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize: Original Pirate Material in 2002 and A Grand Don’t Come For Free in 2004. “Fit But You Know It” was a Top 5 hit in the summer of 2004.
Mike Skinner has performed live at Reading Festival in the dance tent as well as on the main stage”.
Tracklisting:
| 1 | CALL MY PHONE THINKING I’M DOING NOTHING BETTER (FT. TAME IMPALA) |
| 2 | NONE OF US ARE GETTING OUT OF THIS LIFE ALIVE (FT. IDLES) |
| 3 | I WISH YOU LOVED YOU AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE HIM (FT. DONAE’O & GREENTEA PENG) |
| 4 | YOU CAN’T AFFORD ME (FT. MS BANKS) |
| 5 | I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DID (FT. ELIZA & JESSE JAMES SOLOMON) |
| 6 | ESKIMO ICE (FT. KASIEN) |
| 7 | PHONE IS ALWAYS IN MY HAND (FT. DAPZ ON THE MAP) |
| 8 | THE POISON I TAKE HOPING YOU WILL SUFFER (FT. OSCAR #WORLDPEACE) |
| 9 | SAME DIRECTION (FT. JIMOTHY LACOSTE) |
| 10 | FALLING DOWN (FT. HAK BAKER) |
| 11 | CONSPIRACY THEORY FREESTYLE (FT. ROB HARVEY) |
| 12 | TAKE ME AS I AM (WITH CHRIS LORENZO) |
