E 'undeniable: Mike Skinner sbarbine like English, psychotropic substances and palaces. That's right, the tower blocks. When in 2000 he made your ears bleed from all over the world with his first, brilliant album, Original Pirate Material- would have thought that the cover devoted to the enormous hive-building was a tribute to his native Birmingham or transfer nell'urbanizzatissima London, where in fact the disc was recorded. Instead, "Tower Inferno", the photo of the German artist Rut Blees Luxemburg , was not a random tribute to the architecture that characterizes the suburban outskirts and around London, but the beginning of a declaration of love towards iconographic dell'inanimato, huge cluster around every city in the world, making them both comfortable and inhuman, similar and distant, all terribly cold for an eye outdoor clothing and that there inevitably to become popular-culture-reference by those who live every day for many years.
In May 2004, Mr. Skinner public "A grand do not come for free" album that contains the unforgettable Fit But You Know It , and sees the beloved Mike on the cover wearing a cute parkas Geeza while waiting for the bus shelter at night in an unlikely suburban middle of nowhere. This is not no place pulitini from fine art, we are talking about real streets and real neighborhoods low light, taken in the light of street lamps, even at four in the morning with your camera phone, and not for the love of rot, but sincere empathy with those palaces nearly empty or too full, no color or colors improbable. Without going in the "slum" that would nel'econonomia very little sense of the speech, so we've got them places in Milan and in the center , are the remnants of a couple of decades of architectural history incomprehensible, additions or subtractions of cement and the inhabitants The factors are many but the result remains the same: the urban random e l'interazione degli abitanti in essa, il controverso ed affascinante rapporto che stabiliamo con certi luoghi, al primo sguardo brutti e invivibili, e invece pieni di strati da scoprire sollevandoli piano uno ad uno.
L'ultimo capitolo della saga dei palazzoni è stato scritto il 7 febbraio 2011, data dell'uscita di "Computers and Blues" , ultimo album di The Streets . il bellissimo artwork -probabilmente il migliore della serie- ci mostra un dettaglio del solito edificio-alveare, con due uniche finestre iluminate da una forte luce rossa, e una sagoma nera che guarda fuori assorta, annoiata, o semplicemente riposata dopo undici anni di onesto lavoro e bei dischi sfornati regolarmente.
Mike Skinner will be missed by many, but honesty is commendable to give up when you feel the pull chain, too, avoiding a tumble creative that would have saddened even more. Let's push things forward.
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