Playlouder - Music is the Network

The Streets are returning with a new LP this April.

Mike Skinner scrapped a year's worth of work on the record before starting again, because it felt "empty." Wah!

"I just read an interview with Radiohead and they were saying you always forget how hard albums are," he told the NME. “I think that’s true. It’s been two years in the making really and keeping up… knowing that the light at the end of the tunnel is really far away, the task is a very hard task, but I think you always forget how hard the albums before were as well.”

“It was quite well written and the rhyming was really good from a rap point of view but you were just left kind of empty so there wasn’t much to really stimulate people. So I got rid of about 80 percent of the songs on the album and then started again. I felt pretty disastrous really. It was a year’s work up till that point, it wasn’t a very happy place."

Mike desribed the songs as, “Smoother, nicer and more detailed”. Track titles include 'Everything Is Borrowed’ and ‘The Escapist’. Guests on the album are rumoured to include Pete Doherty and Bearman.