Original Pirate Material (2002) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Original Pirate Material a score of 3.4434 out of 4

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Stylus Magazine

In recent years, both hip-hop and UK garage have developed a culture of duality. When the either/or dichotomy is actually ignored, the results are too often clumsy hybrids that wear their formulas so well that one can practically see the stitches. Read more about Original Pirate Material on Stylus Magazine

Entertainment Weekly

By adding grit and gutter-savvy humor, Skinner also takes U.K. garage to a new level, making for the year's most striking debut. Read more about Original Pirate Material on Entertainment Weekly

PopMatters

Original Pirate Material, to put it plainly, is the most vivid evocation of life as a young person in the UK since Blur's Parklife, and yes, even The Clash's first album. Read more about Original Pirate Material on PopMatters

Entertainment Weekly

If you are a white one-man band and want to establish yourself in the general vicinity of the hip-hop world, your first major mistake would be to call yourself the Streets. Read more about Original Pirate Material on Entertainment Weekly

All Music Guide

When Streets tracks first appeared in DJ sets and on garage mix albums circa 2000, they made for an interesting change of pace; instead of hyper-speed ragga chatting or candy-coated divas (or both), listeners heard banging tracks hosted by a strangely Read more about Original Pirate Material on All Music Guide

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