The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For FreeA Grand Dont Come For Freeemerged two years after their breakthrough debut album and The Streets had already become an international phenomenon. This time around, Mike Skinner constructed an album with an on going narrative that was by turns hilarious, touching and energising.Dry Your Eyesbecame The Streets first number 1 single, whileFit But You Know ItandBlinded By The Lightsboth hit the Top 10.

and irresistible

Rhino has remastered the collection and included new liner notes by Lenny Kaye

a couple years later

now its time to soak up

Other guests on the album include Haim (good friends of the band since playing with them at Glastonbury two summers ago) on backing vocals and Rachel Zeffira from Cat‰۪s Eyes

Taking its cue

psych duo The Wands are the aural sound of an acid trip at the blissed-out point when your arms appear to be made of rainbows

Grumbling Fur‰۪s ‰Û÷Preternaturals‰۪ is the second release on the label run by The Quietus

split-second timing

The album has 17 tracks featuring songs such as ‘When You’re Depressed’ (for which a video has been produced) – ‘Relative Poverty’ ‘Facing The Scorn Of Tomorrow’s Generation’ and ‘Knickers On The Line By 3 Chord Fraud’

While location proved particularly propitious in terms of creativity

And what else was there to do