The 5th and final album from Mike Skinner AKA The Streets. Mike Skinner is the original British rapper. With the charts now awash with home-grown hip-hop phrase-makers, it's hard to remember that before The Streets came along, the idea of British rapper all too often seemed like a contradiction on terms. It was Mike Skinner - along with his fellow 2002 breakthrough act Dizzee Rascal - who first taught us that the things a UK MC might have to say actually mattered more than how much they did or didn't owe their transatlantic source material. Computers and Blues crams everything Mike Skinner has learnt in the course of his very personal five album odyssey into a package as irresistibly box-fresh as his game-changing 2002 debut Original Pirate Material. In the course of this infectiously upbeat, tune-packed parting shot, the sound of The Streets goes back to basics at the same time as expanding in all directions. Given that four of Computers and Blues 14 tracks started life as demos given away on Twitter, it makes sense that this album should also crystallize Skinner's insatiably curious take on the technological innovations which have changed all our lives in the nine years since the first Streets release. Computers and Blues addresses the interplay between human emotion and electronic communication with Skinner's trademark self-deprecating wit.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Outside Inside
2. Going Through Hell
3. Roof Of Your Car
4. Puzzled By People
5. Without Thinking
6. Blip On A Screen
7. Those That Don't Know
8. Soldiers
9. We Can Never Be Friends
10. ABC
11. OMG
12. Trying To Kill M.E.
13. Trust Me
14. Lock The Locks