The Streets – Everything is Borrowed
No Street Cred
Everything is Borrowed, the fourth LP from The Streets, aka Mike Skinner, ditches the bitter self-loathing from his last album, The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, in favor of refined self-reflection and philosophical gibberish. Throughout the album, Skinner wrecks potentially good tracks by nonchalantly dropping pedestrian verses straight out of 9th grade creative writing class:
“The wind of change won’t whistle me away
If I spin my tails and sail
And sail away
Let yesterday become today”
The production quality is also suspect. Skinner has always been accompanied by sparse beats and Everything is Borrowed is no exception. But since he has taken some heat off of his vocal fastball, the over-compressed backing tracks sound particularly static. “The Way of the Dodo” and “Never Give In” have all the makings of quality music, but their mixes don’t hit hard enough. This leaves Skinner and his apathetic voice sounding naked on the track.
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