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Hey, Mike Skinner! Nu-rave already happened! You missed it by like two years!

If Streets mastermind Skinner really wanted to make the British music press froth with anticipation, he'd record with Kings of Leon or something. But according to a new MySpace blog post from Skinner, the next (and possibly final) Streets album will be "ravey." Let's hope then that's actual rave throwback (a la Zomby) instead of, say, the Sunshine Underground.

Here's Skinner: "The album doesn't sound like Lou Reed's Berlin because I never said Lou Reed, I only said 'Berlin'. Incorporating some kind of post modernist art house bauhaus row with foul mouths. But it's not that at all. It now sounds ravey. It is a ravey album album that bludgeons you over the head with its stick of 1988 Romford, Blackpool, and Philadelphia rock. It is an insane album."

Philadelphia rock? Like the Dead Milkmen? Need New Body? What's he talking about?

This could go one of two ways. On the one hand, Skinner's 2008 album Everything Is Borrowed was a folk-damaged MOR travesty, his worst by miles and the first time the Streets have ever been boring. It's tough to come back from a piece of shit like that. On the other hand, Skinner is still the guy responsible for "Weak Become Heroes", which is up there with LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" and Pulp's "Sorted for E's and Wizz" in the pantheon of wistful rave-memory songs. So maybe it'll be great. Who even knows with this guy.