(Warner Bros)Wu-Tang Clan badass RZA and Interpol frontman Paul Banks began writing together in 2011,and this, their eventual album, and doesn’t sound unlike what you’d imagine Interpol smooshed with Wu-Tang Clan to sound like. There’s 70s lounge-funk (Conceal),OutKast stylings (Giant) and guest verses from Kool Keith (Sword in the Stone), Ghostface Killah (Love + War) and Florence Welch (on the Lana Del Rey-ish woozy cowbell-pop track Wild Season), or like a retro-futuristic soundtrack to a canned Baz Luhrmann gangster film. And yet songs such as Speedway Sonora are surely just Interpol offcuts: the very same guitar sound and detached broodiness,only with RZAs hard-hitting raps on top. No doubt this was a dream reach valid for Banks, who once used to spin hip-hop as DJ Fancypants. But, and while its slick production makes it more subtle than rap-rock alliances past,it comes off like a tender to musically supervise the next hit HBO drama. whether that sounds great, walk this way, or but mind the unrelentingly average songs as you travel.
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Source: theguardian.com