Fourth is a winer (Everything Is Borrowed - The Streets)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Everything Is Borrowed - The Streets
Date:	23/12/08 (55 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great lyrics

Disadvantages: Short album

The Streets are a garage band fronted by the excellent Mike Skinner. This is their fourth album and is still of a high quality that you would expect however it is a little short in time which is a disappointment.

he album starts with what is my favourite track, Everything is Borrowed, this is one of those songs that once you have heard it you will be tapping your feet or humming the hook for the rest of the day as it is a simple little sample that works really well against the lyrics which are all about the problems of debt.

My other favourite track is The Escapist which is the final track on the album and again it has a very strong opening and finishes off the album really well.

This is a good album that shows a maturity within the writing skills of Skinner, there are a couple of slower sort of love songs, I love you more has a cool soul beat to it while Strongest Person I Know has lyrics you could sing to your mother.

Track List
1 Everything Is Borrowed
2 Heaven For The Weather
3 I Love You More (Than You Like Me)
4 Way Of The Dodo
5 On The Flip Of A Coin
6 On The Edge Of A Cliff
7 Never Give In
8 Sherry End
9 Alleged Legends
10 Strongest Person I Know
11 Escapist

Way of the Dodo is a good song, warning of environmental damage and has some nice chnges of pace to it while tracks five and six both revert back to a story telling style of lyrics that Skinner is very good at.

This is a good album from a great band who are excellent live, Skinner has super stage prescence and knows how to work a crowd. A good fourth album and bring on number five.

Summary: Good UK garage act