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Track List
01) Grateful
02) Stranger
03) Heartbeat
04) Queue Jumping
05) Wait So Long
06) Pushin'
07) Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose
08) It's A War
09) Guess Again
10) Flesh & Bone
11) Pursuit Of Happiness
12) Mercy
13) Deeper
14) Sepia
01) Grateful
02) Stranger
03) Heartbeat
04) Queue Jumping
05) Wait So Long
06) Pushin'
07) Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose
08) It's A War
09) Guess Again
10) Flesh & Bone
11) Pursuit Of Happiness
12) Mercy
13) Deeper
14) Sepia
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3:49
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3:38
3:57
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3:01
3:30
3:55
3:54
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First Released
2018
Hip-Hop
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Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose is the fourth studio album by English singer and rapper Plan B.
Background
In 2010, Plan B released his second studio album The Defamation of Strickland Banks, a concept album about "the journey of a fictional soul singer who was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit". The following year, he announced a follow-up album, The Ballad of Belmarsh. He told the Daily Mirror that the album would be closer in tone to his debut, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words: "It's an underground hip-hop album about Strickland Banks being banged up in Belmarsh. I won't be him singing anymore, I'll be rapping about him, commenting on the story." In September 2011, Plan B announced that The Ballad of Belmarsh had been put on hold in order to work on his then-upcoming film Ill Manors (2012).
In April 2018, Plan B stated that the project never came to fruition because he got bored of the Strickland Banks character:
"It's one of those lost albums. I'd shot Ill Manors and the label wasn't taking the film seriously. I'd written most of it before I put out ...Strickland Banks. I was living at RAK Studios and done the whole American thing where I've got different people working in different rooms. It was bollocks. It felt like I was only doing it to capitalise on the success of Strickland Banks and at that point I was sick of Strickland Banks. Fuck him.
"You know them fuckers who get stuck in sitcoms, like the geezer from Steptoe & Son? Apparently he was a sick up 'n' coming actor and he done Steptoe & Son and it blew up and he got typecast. I started to experience what that felt like by doing The Ballad of Belmarsh after Strickland Banks. By that point, I hated the sight of Strickland Banks. I'm sure a lot of other people did too. I was plastered everywhere. That would've got on my nerves. It did get on my nerves!"
"I can understand why it gets on other people's nerves, when someone gets so big you're just bombarded with their face all over the place. I was sick of the sight of my own face. That's why I did Ill Manors instead of The Ballad of Belmarsh."
User Album Review
A long absence from the music scene can be problematic enough at the best of times. Where’s the line between being badly missed and forgotten entirely? It’s even tougher when your last release was a fanbase-culling collection of bleak, unrelenting rap music. That was Ben “Plan B” Drew’s previous album, Ill Manors, the soundtrack to his shockingly gritty film of the same name almost six years ago. Which makes it over eight years since he became a multi-platinum, Brit Award-winning soul singer with his smooth second album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks.
This new collection could pass for Strickland Banks 2. He’s singing again, pushing his voice to new heights on the standout song, Queue Jumping. He sounds significantly happier, too, on Grateful, which is about his daughter, and on It’s a War, a bouncy piano song with the catchiest tune here.
Elsewhere it’s harder to pin him down. He does shouty Jamaican dancehall on Guess Again, while Mercy and Deeper are straight-up dance tracks that sound surprisingly dated.
Plan B at his most impressive, angry and sharp-tongued, appears on Flesh & Bone, which appears to be addressed to his estranged father and might also be his best bet for a new hit, with a rasping electronic soul sound that recalls one of UK music’s biggest recent success stories, Rag’n’Bone Man.
But once again he’s mostly an awkward fit in the current pop climate. Whether that’s to his advantage or disadvantage this time remains to be seen.
Reviewed by David Smyth for standard.co.uk.
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Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose is the fourth studio album by English singer and rapper Plan B.
Background
In 2010, Plan B released his second studio album The Defamation of Strickland Banks, a concept album about "the journey of a fictional soul singer who was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit". The following year, he announced a follow-up album, The Ballad of Belmarsh. He told the Daily Mirror that the album would be closer in tone to his debut, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words: "It's an underground hip-hop album about Strickland Banks being banged up in Belmarsh. I won't be him singing anymore, I'll be rapping about him, commenting on the story." In September 2011, Plan B announced that The Ballad of Belmarsh had been put on hold in order to work on his then-upcoming film Ill Manors (2012).
In April 2018, Plan B stated that the project never came to fruition because he got bored of the Strickland Banks character:
"It's one of those lost albums. I'd shot Ill Manors and the label wasn't taking the film seriously. I'd written most of it before I put out ...Strickland Banks. I was living at RAK Studios and done the whole American thing where I've got different people working in different rooms. It was bollocks. It felt like I was only doing it to capitalise on the success of Strickland Banks and at that point I was sick of Strickland Banks. Fuck him.
"You know them fuckers who get stuck in sitcoms, like the geezer from Steptoe & Son? Apparently he was a sick up 'n' coming actor and he done Steptoe & Son and it blew up and he got typecast. I started to experience what that felt like by doing The Ballad of Belmarsh after Strickland Banks. By that point, I hated the sight of Strickland Banks. I'm sure a lot of other people did too. I was plastered everywhere. That would've got on my nerves. It did get on my nerves!"
"I can understand why it gets on other people's nerves, when someone gets so big you're just bombarded with their face all over the place. I was sick of the sight of my own face. That's why I did Ill Manors instead of The Ballad of Belmarsh."
User Album Review
A long absence from the music scene can be problematic enough at the best of times. Where’s the line between being badly missed and forgotten entirely? It’s even tougher when your last release was a fanbase-culling collection of bleak, unrelenting rap music. That was Ben “Plan B” Drew’s previous album, Ill Manors, the soundtrack to his shockingly gritty film of the same name almost six years ago. Which makes it over eight years since he became a multi-platinum, Brit Award-winning soul singer with his smooth second album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks.
This new collection could pass for Strickland Banks 2. He’s singing again, pushing his voice to new heights on the standout song, Queue Jumping. He sounds significantly happier, too, on Grateful, which is about his daughter, and on It’s a War, a bouncy piano song with the catchiest tune here.
Elsewhere it’s harder to pin him down. He does shouty Jamaican dancehall on Guess Again, while Mercy and Deeper are straight-up dance tracks that sound surprisingly dated.
Plan B at his most impressive, angry and sharp-tongued, appears on Flesh & Bone, which appears to be addressed to his estranged father and might also be his best bet for a new hit, with a rasping electronic soul sound that recalls one of UK music’s biggest recent success stories, Rag’n’Bone Man.
But once again he’s mostly an awkward fit in the current pop climate. Whether that’s to his advantage or disadvantage this time remains to be seen.
Reviewed by David Smyth for standard.co.uk.
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