Plan B - Defamation of Strickland Banks [CD]

Plan B - Defamation of Strickland Banks (CD NEW)

Label: Warner Bros UK
Format: CD
Release Date: 27 Apr 2010

Brand New

Album Tracks

1. Love Goes Down
2. Writing's on the Wall
3. Stay Too Long
4. She Said
5. Welcome to Hell
6. Hard Times
7. The Recluse
8. Traded in My Cigarettes
9. Prayin'
10. Darkest Place
11. Free
12. I Know a Song
13. What You Gonna Do

'The defamation of strickland banks' from Plan B is the sound of motown, stax and obscure northern soul, filtered through the grit of contemporary east London. It is smokey robinson miraculously fused with eminem. It's an urban fairytale, the story of a man who finds success hard to handle and then hits rock bottom. A sweet soul morsel with a razor-sharp edge. Plan B's second single 'she said' currently b list on the UK's radio 1 & radio 2 playlist. 'the defamation of strickland banks' are songs that tell the story of strickland banks, a sharp-suited British soul singer who finds fame with bitter-sweet love songs like 'love goes down' and 'writing's on the wall' but loses everything when he ends up in prison for a crime he didn't commit. It's as if marvin gaye went from his early motown love songs to 'what's goin' on' in just one album, then had it all remixed by London grime artists. Produced by paul epworth, the studio genius behind recent hits by florence & the machine, the big pink and friendly fires, Plan B's latest is a ferocious collision of retro soul, funk, rock and rap that sounds smokey robinson fronting rage against the machine.