NONE OF US ARE GETTING OUT OF THIS LIFE ALIVE

THE STREETS

★★★ ★★

THIS marks the first full-length Streets record since 2011, and fans will be pleased to know it also marks a significant upturn in quality from some of the more recent releases.

The Brummie-cum-Londoner has always championed urban talent and often the record is a showcase for them rather than him. Among the highlights are Donae’o and Greentea Peng on the dubby I Wish You Loved You As Much As You Love Him and Jesse James Solomon, a south-east London poet-rapper in some ways made in Skinner’s image, whose collab on I Know Something You Did is perhaps the pick of the bunch.