Streets in the Sky

Streets In The Sky is the third studio album by Coventry-based indie rock band The Enemy, released on 21 May 2012 through Cooking Vinyl and eOne Music. It entered the UK Albums Chart at no. 9,[2] and was met with universally negative reviews.

Streets In The Sky
Studio album by The Enemy
Released	21 May 2012
Genre	Indie rock, punk rock[1]
Length	40:38
Label	Cooking Vinyl, eOne Music
Producer	Joby J Ford
The Enemy chronology
Music for the People (2009) Streets In The Sky (2012) It's Automatic (2015)
Singles from Streets in the Sky
"Saturday" Released: May 15, 2012 "Like a Dancer" Released: July 16, 2012

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Coventry Telegraph	(favourable)[4]
Drowned In Sound	[5]
The Fly	[6]
musicOMH	[7]
NME	6/10[8]
PopMatters	2/10[9]
Sputnikmusic	2.0/5[10]
The Quietus	(unfavourable)[11]
York Vision	(unfavourable)[12]

Critical reception was extremely negative, with Album of the Year rating it as the worst album of 2012 as reviewed by critics.[13] The album scored 2.9/10 at aggregator website AnyDecentMusic? (the fourth-lowest rated album of all time).[14]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Gimme the Sign"	3:09
2.	"Bigger Cages (Longer Chains)"	2:57
3.	"Saturday"	3:12
4.	"1-2-3-4"	2:59
5.	"Like a Dancer"	3:09
6.	"Come into My World"	2:57
7.	"This Is Real"	4:38
8.	"2 Kids"	3:56
9.	"Turn It On"	3:33
10.	"It's a Race"	3:29
11.	"Get Up and Dance"	3:52
12.	"Make a Man"	2:47

Music videos

• 1,2,3,4 (acoustic)
• Gimme the Sign
• Saturday
• Saturday (acoustic)
• Like a Dancer

References

1. "BISOUND.COM - - . mp3 . . FM- ".
2. "Enemy - Streets In The Sky".
3. O'Brien, Jon. "The Enemy – Streets in the Sky – review". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
4. Poole, Alan (17 May 2012). "Album Review: The Enemy - Streets in the Sky". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
5. Calvert, John (25 May 2012). "The Enemy – Streets in the Sky". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
6. Ross, Daniel (18 May 2012). "The Enemy Streets In The Sky (COOKING VINYL)". The Fly. MAMA & Company. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
7. Green, Laurence (21 May 2012). "The Enemy – Streets In The Sky (Cooking Vinyl)". musicOMH. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
8. Denney, Alex (19 May 2012). "The Enemy – Streets In The Sky". NME. IPC Media. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
9. Ezell, Brice (27 June 2012). "The Enemy: Streets in the Sky". PopMatters. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
10. "The Enemy – Streets in the Sky". Sputnikmusic. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
11. Kulkarni, Neil (17 May 2012). "The Enemy – Streets in the Sky – Review". The Quietus. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
12. Lloyd, Jordan (29 May 2012). "Album Review: Streets in the Sky- The Enemy". York Vision. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
13. "The 25 Worst Albums of 2012". Album of the Year. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
14. "AnyDecentMusic? - All Time". WebCite. AnyDecentMusic?. Archived from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.

External links

• REVIEW: The Enemy single "Saturday"