The Streets have released a new video showing work progressing on their final album.
A hugely under-rated group, The Streets burst out of Birmingham in 2001 with their debut album ‘Original Pirate Material’. Mixing garage beats with homespun wisdom, Mike Skinner seemed to capture something real about modern Britain.
Nominated for the Mercury prize, the subsequent decade has seen The Streets become hugely successful. Always intending to release just five albums, Mike Skinner confirmed last year that their new material would be their last.
‘Everything Is Borrowed’ was released in 2008, and since then Mike Skinner has not given any sign of changing his mind. Currently working on a new album, The Streets are set to release new material next year.
Containing a raft of guest stars, the album has been provisionally titled ‘Computers And Blues’. Ending the project almost exactly a decade after it began, The Streets should come to an end in 2011.
Now Mike Skinner has posted a video containing pieces of new material. The producer has been working with Rob Harvey from The Music, and the two are shown playing instrumental passages.
The clip is title ‘Comfortable’ and features a series of messages from Mike Skinner regarding the new album.
Watch the video HERE.
Meanwhile, Mike Skinner has ditched his phone and he feels all the better for it. “I do tend to ask people if i can use their phone a bit which feels quite hypocritical but its not that often. It’s just really chilled. No buzzing, vibrating or bleeping. and no checking the stream for useless friends and family noise. i do like the look of those new blackberry torch’s though. i always missed having keys on the iPhone…”
