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Banks & Steelz: Anything But Words

John Calvert, New Musical Express, 2 September 2016

THE RAP-ROCK fusion album is a hard one to get right. Examples of success in this weird little corner of music do exist — Dälek's white-noise debut from 1998 and Death Grips' 2011 album Ex-Military come to mind — but generally we're talking frat-boy angst in an Adidas tracksuit or, even worse, Kid Rock.

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