"The weird thing about being a music artist is that you live your life approximately 12 months ahead of your fans," Skinner explained in a MySpace blog posting. "I'm about to wrap my latest album. You're going to hear it in a few months (unless it leaks before then) but I'm already planning the next one."
First things first. Skinner let slip the title for album four, Everything is Borrowed, and he promised that it is a work of "peaceful positive vibes", perfect as a follow-up to the "disturbing work" of 2006's The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living. The latter was taken to task by critics for its charmless, cokey mania, and even Skinner now calls it a "guilt-ridden indulgence".
Skinner is less concerned with Everything is Borrowed, however, and mostly with the one that will follow. "The final Streets album, the fifth one, will be dark and futuristic," he wrote. "This could not be further from the album you're about to hear, but it's what is on my mind at the moment. I feel inspired by the synthesiser exhibition we visited in Graz."
"Of course, I'm not supposed to tell you about this dark vision of the future because I'm about to promote my peaceful coming-to-terms album. I'm told the peaceful one is quite good, although I've heard it so many times that it's just noise to me now. But the really exciting thing for me is the dark Berlin-influenced electronic album that'll come next."
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