Plan B: Ill Manors – review

No more retro-soul for Ben Drew – he's back to hip-hop and sink-estate reportage. It's impressive, but pretty harrowing tooOn the final track of his third album, Ben Drew offers a message to any of the 1m buyers of its predecessor who find themselves dismayed by its noticeably different follow-up. But his message does not, perhaps, strike quite the conciliatory tone his record label – who find themselves flogging a collection of bleak, unflinching hip-hop to people expecting another album ...

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