Music
19 May 04

A Grand Don't Come For Free

Delivered with compelling lyrical dexterity and all the elements of a great story (love, crime, betrayal, action and substance abuse), this is a superbly crafted record.

It's been an excruciating wait for the legion of Streets fans that picked up on Skinner's 2002 genre busting debut, Original Pirate Material, and his follow-up rewrites the rulebooks all over again. With a stream-of-consciousness narrative that threads throughout the record, A Grand Don't Come For Free plays like a musical in which Skinner paints a finely detailed, highly entertaining picture of his journey to self-discovery - via the DVD shop, the bookmakers, the pub, the club, the package-deal holiday, the kebab shop and, ultimately, Dumpsville. Delivered with compelling lyrical dexterity and all the elements of a great story (love, crime, betrayal, action and substance abuse), this is a superbly crafted record.

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