The Streets: None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive review – a banging return – The Guardian

For years, Mike Skinner has been living his best post-superstar life DJ-ing regularly, raising small Streets. But nearly a decade on from his two 2011 albums, he returns with a banging outing hes dryly downplayed as an album of rap duets.
Here are garage tunes freighted with everyman wisdom, drumnbass throwbacks where Skinners deadpan Barnet-via-Birmingham delivery meets a crush of on-point contributors, from Ms Banks to Idles. Exes and phone etiquette figure by now, listeners will know how this wordsmith goes deepest when he seems most shallow. The titles alone are a marker of how well Skinner still dances on the philosopher-party animal cusp.
While the Streets Tame Impala two-hander justly set the internet abuzz, even better tunes lie within. I Wish You Loved You As Much As You Love Him puts its arm around the shoulder of a girl wasting her affections. Best of all, I Know Something You Did is an icy, soul-adjacent collaboration in which Skinners singing voice strains eloquently upwards: I know something you did/ But I cant say owt/ Because of, lets say, how I found out.
Watch a sampler for None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive by the Streets.

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