Mike Skinner of The Streets is continuing to keep his pledge to post new material on Twitter, with new song ‘Trust Me’ available now.
The Streets broke through with their debut album ‘Original Pirate Material’ in 2002. Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, it blended garage beats with wry and witty observations of life in modern Britain.
Since then the group have dominated the British pop landscape, with their last album ‘Everything Is Borrowed’ released to no little acclaim from fans. However Mike Skinner has always insisted that The Streets would disband after their fifth album, leaving the group with one more record to complete.
Earlier this week the songwriter announced he was going to write and record three songs in three days, releasing them as free downloads on the social networking site Twitter. Yesterday the first of these songs was released, and Skinner has so far kept to his promise by releasing another song on the website.
Titled ‘Trust Me’ the song harks back to The Streets’ early material and uses an extensive Bollywood sample. Skinner raps about smoking and includes references to the Massive Attack song ‘Karmacoma’.
According to the download portal Zshare the song has already been downloaded more than 11,000 times since going online earlier today.
Mike Skinner told fans he was using cult films as inspiration, but warned in a Twitter message that he may well run out of inspiration on the third day.
If Skinner manages to keep to his promise a new song should appear on his Twitter page sometime today!
