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Disco de The Streets: “Grand Don't Come for Free [Bonus Track]”
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Grand Don't Come for Free [Bonus Track] |
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Fecha de Publicación:2004-10-11
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Tipo:Desconocido
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Género:Electronic/Dance, House, Indie Rock
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Sello Discográfico:WEA/Warner
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Letras Explícitas:Si
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UPC:5050467577824
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{$Mike Skinner} has a problem, and from the sound of it, it's life-threatening. He opens his second {$Streets} full-length by moaning "It was supposed to be so easy..." as though he's about to deliver his deathbed confession, the classic tale of a crime gone wrong. Instead, three minutes later, it's clear what the "it" was: walking down to bring back a DVD rental, taking some money out of the machine, and calling his mother, who he'd just left at home, to tell her he wouldn't be back for tea. Believe it or not, but that's just another day in the life of Britain's favorite bedsit producer cum {\singer/songwriter}. Although listeners may not wonder where he finds his material, they'll quickly realize that {^A Grand Don't Come for Free} is just as immediately striking as {$Skinner}'s career-making full-length debut, {^Original Pirate Material}. It succeeds, despite a clear lack of comparable singles, because of its paradoxical concept (and yes, it is a concept album) that a record can be tremendously ambitious even though it charts a very unambitious personality. {$Skinner}'s urban British youth persona is even more fully drawn than before, and this time he delivers a complete narrative in LP form, with characters, conflicts, themes, and postmodern resolution on the closer. He's sheepish about his utter lack of knowledge about football (and the heavy gambling losses that result from it), unreservedly enthusiastic about his girlfriend early on but later totally disgusted with her (in a blowup that rivals {$Dizzee Rascal}'s {&"I Luv U"}), not so easily dismissive of a gorgeous showoff in front of him at the kebab shop, and willing to confront anyone who criticizes him for drinking at home until he can set up a row of empty Tennent's Super cans. Fortunately, he hasn't reduced {$the Streets} to a {\comedy} act in the process. There is as much tragedy and heartbreak here as there is slapstick {\comedy}. {&"Blinded By the Lights,"} driven at half-speed by a shadowy {\trance} line and {$Skinner}'s disoriented delivery, transmits perfectly the intense loneliness that can flood you in a club full of people and the utter disenchantment of being stranded in the middle of euphoria. {$Skinner} drives these tracks with a mere skeleton of productions and delivers some cruelly off-key harmonies on the choruses; only the single, a {\rockabilly} buster named {&"Fit But You Know It,"} makes any attempt to connect the dots from beats to melody to production. Confronting doubts about his seriousness and squashing whispers about his talent, {$Skinner} has made a sophomore record that expands on what distinguishes {$the Streets} from any other act in music. [Internationally, the album was available with a bonus track.] ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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