{"id":803,"date":"2014-02-27T05:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2014-02-27T05:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:23:48","slug":"cdhhthestreets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdhhthestreets\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/thest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/thest.jpg\" alt=\"thest\" width=\"300\" height=\"304\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Streets<br \/>\n&#8220;A Grand Don&#8217;t Come For Free&#8221;<br \/>\n(Pure Groove \/ Universal)<\/h4>\n<p>So, you&#8217;ve made a groundbreaking hit record and have\u00a0been dubbed, by all of the major pop pubs, as &#8220;the\u00a0next big thing&#8221;. \u00a0Your style a fresh meshing between\u00a0UK Garage and hip-hop sensibilities. \u00a0How do you keep\u00a0from being a novelty? \u00a0Just as importantly, how do you\u00a0avoid the sophomore slump with such high expectations?\u00a0If you are Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, it&#8217;s easy:\u00a0tell a simple story of losing a grand and finding\u00a0love, all the while detailing your gambling habit,\u00a0sheisty friends, and the stages of the boy-girl love\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>From the prolific, symphonic brass that drives\u00a0in the opening &#8220;It Was Supposed To Be So Easy&#8221;, to the\u00a0fading and reverberating synths that drive a\u00a0despondent mood into &#8220;Blinded by the Lights&#8221;, to the\u00a0soft and reflective guitar samples that weep with &#8220;Dry\u00a0Your Eyes&#8221;, Skinner unsurprisingly weaves together yet\u00a0another cohesive effort with his production talents.<\/p>\n<p>What is surprising is how he turns such a seemingly\u00a0clich\u00e9 story of love and life into a fresh and\u00a0poignant trip through places we&#8217;ve all seen before. Love takes its course, true friends are realized;\u00a0frustration, euphoria, anger, happiness, and the like\u00a0are experienced appropriately; and the finale (&#8220;Empty\u00a0Cans&#8221;) is something only a mastermind could conceive. Sophomore slump? No. \u00a0More like a one-man game of\u00a0&#8220;King of the Castle&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Streets &#8220;A Grand Don&#8217;t Come For Free&#8221; (Pure Groove \/ Universal) So, you&#8217;ve made a groundbreaking hit record and have\u00a0been dubbed, by all of the major pop pubs, as &#8220;the\u00a0next big thing&#8221;. \u00a0Your style a fresh meshing between\u00a0UK Garage and hip-hop sensibilities. \u00a0How do you keep\u00a0from being a novelty? \u00a0Just as importantly, how do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3624,5735,7642,8103],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}