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Though it may assume as Paul Banks and RZA (under his moniker Bobby Steelz) appear from absolutely abstracted agreeable worlds, they accept added in accepted than you ability think. Banks catholic throughout his childhood, but he, like RZA, fabricated a name for himself in New York City. Both men were the masterminds of two awful affecting New York music groups: indie rockers Interpol for Banks and the allegorical Wu-Tang Clan for RZA. What absolutely makes them alike, though, is their admiration to agreement with anniversary others' genres.
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Before Banks & Steelz was alike abutting to advancing together, both associates flirted in worlds altered from their own. Banks flirted with authoritative beats on his abandoned albums, Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper and Banks, and released his own rap mixtape with 2013's Everybody on My Dick Like They Supposed to Be. Meanwhile, RZA has biconcave his toes in the indie rock apple on a few occasions, accommodating with garage rock bandage The Black Keys on their rap-rock Blakroc anthology as able-bodied as his own Man with the Iron Fists soundtrack. For years, they've appealed to altered audiences who seek out altered styles, but it was about assured that they would appear calm in some capacity. Anything But Words is the acme of these flirtations with added genres as they absolutely dive into them.
The duo's roles are acutely defined. Both men accord best of the album's production, abreast from advance clue "Giant," done by John Hill and Kid Harpoon and the Kool Keith-featuring "Sword in the Stone," produced by common Bruno Mars and Charli XCX assistant Andrew Wyatt. Ari Levine, affiliate of Bruno Mars' Smeezingtons assembly group, co-produces "Anything But Words" with the duo. The rap verses are done by RZA, while Banks sings the hooks, bridges and in the accomplishments throughout the project.
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While RZA gets acclaim for actuality the de facto baton of the Wu-Tang Clan and one of the best affecting producers in hip-hop history, his rapping has consistently been a alloyed bag for some. On Anything But Words, however, he's accomplishing some of his best assignment as a solo rapper back his 2001 album Digital Bullets. At some times he's agitated and rapping for his activity on advance like "Giant" and "Speedway Sonora." Added times, he's added air-conditioned and aggregate like on "Anything But Words" and "Conceal."
Bobby Steelz's best verses appear on one of the album's better highlights, "Can't Hardly Feel." On the track, he recollects his thoughts on a babe whom he had collapsed in adulation but absent the collection. It's a bit reminiscent of his verses on James Blake's "Take a Fall For Me" from 2013, in that it deals with introspectively ambidextrous with a absent adulation who no best feels for him.
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The complete of the anthology is assorted throughout. "Speedway Sonora" has about a punk rock activity to it. "Conceal" is authentic by its connected bassline abetment Banks and Bobby's words and eventually arch to a analgesic guitar abandoned that closes the song. "Love and War" is congenital about horns. "Sword in the Stone" is a bit added acceptable hip-hop. No two advance complete the same.
There are a few added guests abreast from Kool Keith. RZA's Wu-Tang brothers Ghostface Killah ("Love and War"), Masta Killa and Method Man ("Point of View") appearance up to accord memorable verses. Florence the Machine's Florence Welch's often-overpowering voice absolutely ends up alive able-bodied with Banks on "Wild Season" as well.
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Banks & Steelz consistently about-face shapes and sounds on Anything But Words, but the analysis doesn't consistently work. However, the album never bores alike in its asperous tracks. When it comes to demography risks and exploring the agreeable landscape, Banks and RZA accept a shared desire on this project: to footfall out of their corresponding abundance zones to actualize a sonic affair of the minds.
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