Computers and Blues

2011, Feb 7

Apple Spotify UK Hip Hop 91 679 Recordings UK. Ltd. Pitchfork 5.7/10 A.V. Club D+ NME 4/5 Paste 5.9/10 Evening Standard 4/5 The Independent 4/5 All Music 4/5 The Skinny 4/5 Gigwise 8/10 Clash 7/10 Mojo 3/5 Loud and Quiet 8/10 Pop Matters 7/10 The Guardian 3/5 music OMH 4.5/5 Beats Per Minute 65% Sputnikmusic 1.5/5 The Telegraph 4/5 Uncut 4/10

A.V. Club D+ Mike Skinner’s uneasy relationship with his Streets creation has been evident since 2006’s The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, a paranoid pitfalls-of-celebrity album that predicted the New Age retreat of 2008’s Everything Is Borrowed. Much of that can probably be attributed to Skinner’s milieu—pub-crawls,…

Clash 7/10 “You can’t Google the solutions to people’s problems” reasons Mike Skinner on ‘Puzzled By People’, the truth behind the everyman introspection he’s spent years conducting suddenly dawnin

The Guardian 3/5 One for the road from the Streets. <strong>Paul MacInnes</strong> has mixed feelings

The Telegraph 4/5 Skinner has manfully swum against the tide of rap’s machismo with 'Computers and Blues'. Rating: * * * *