Plan B | Pop review

Brixton Academy, LondonThe rise and rise of Plan B is one of the music stories of 2010. Only a year ago, Londoner Ben Drew was a talented but commercially underperforming rapper, spitting tales of urban paranoia in a patois-heavy guttural rasp. One Amy Winehouse Back to Black-style breakthrough album later, Drew's star is spectacularly in the ascendant.The record in question is The Defamation of Strickland Banks, the magnificently nuanced concept album and exercise in retro-soul that hit No 1 ...

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