The Streets released their last album – 2011’s ‘Computers and Blues’ – you can’t help but think that the pressure’s off somewhat.
Now a settled family man, who still parties hard, but parties hardly (a lifestyle switch he admits to on the sassy ‘You Can’t Afford Me’) Skinner’s now doing things on his own terms, rather than bowing to the beck and call of record labels, lawyers and PR companies.As a result, things seem a little less exhausting.
Instead of spunking huge budgets on lavish videos, he’s now filming his own on an iPhone, which he also used to mix this on rather than in a flash studio.
Rather than getting his people to talk to your people and arranging sterile, soulless meetings in glass-fronted offices, Skinner’s simply DM-ing his.
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