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Plan B
Ben Drew created a concept album putting more than his soul into his work. These are songs with many parts, and only some of those are the tight harmonies you can hear.
The bitter-sweet songs on the album The Defamation of Strickland Banks tell the story of how the fictional Strickland Banks, a sharp-suited British soul singer, ends up in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The story is told in 13 chapters that sound remarkably like songs.
Plan B takes street-hard rhymes and blends them with the mellowest sounds.
He looks raw and edgy, but crooning over the top of his acoustic guitar Ben Drew is more inspired than intimidating.
The track She Said is soul sweet with a bitter centre.
I can't write, without music filling the gaps between words. Plan B is playing, late into the night.
I can't write, without music filling the gaps between words. Plan B is playing, late into the night.
