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Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

  • Summary: The debut full-length release for the collaboration between Interpol's Paul Banks and Wu-Tang Clan's RZA features guest appearances from Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Kool Keith, and Florence Welch.
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Bass instills in the building, flash the camera, I'ma drop the hammer Things done changed in hip-hop since they let Bobby out the slammer Hip-hop... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Sep 1, 2016
    80
    When Anything But Words ups the pace, it proves to be one of the finest records of the year.
  2. Sep 13, 2016
    80
    Anything But Words is the sound of two worlds colliding and finding a golden middle ground.
  3. Q Magazine
    Sep 14, 2016
    80
    A record you never dreamt you needed, but which leaves you craving more. [Sep 2016, p.109]
  4. Aug 25, 2016
    75
    It's a departure from their comfort zones that pays off surprisingly well for two artists collaborating for the first time.
  5. Magnet
    Sep 20, 2016
    70
    While RZA has never sounded so alive, Banks has never sounded so, well, dead. This hot/cold, menace-and-moody pattern--it's what most of Anything But Words' song structures are all about. [No. 135, p.51]
  6. Aug 29, 2016
    67
    It’s not perfect, but Banks and Steelz take risks many other artists might avoid, more than proving their worth.
  7. Sep 12, 2016
    44
    Anything But Words is the rare side project that might have been better off if both parties had cared a little less.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Oct 23, 2016
    10
    Um album interessante e diferente, o ponto alto é a participação de Florence Welch, a musica é muito forte e diferente. A produçãoUm album interessante e diferente, o ponto alto é a participação de Florence Welch, a musica é muito forte e diferente. A produção eletronic/Hip-Hop/soul/Indie-rock também merece atenção, é muito bem trabalhado e desenvolvido, acho que queriam chamar atenção das pessoas que estavam procurando algo novo para ouvir. Expand
  2. Sep 4, 2016
    8
    Two superpower-summoning megastars in their fields for a joint LP? Yes, please! Visionary Wu guardian RZA and multitalented Interpol'er PaulTwo superpower-summoning megastars in their fields for a joint LP? Yes, please! Visionary Wu guardian RZA and multitalented Interpol'er Paul Banks have made the perfect combo album of alternative rock and hardcore hip-hop in Anything But Words. It could stand to be more counter to the status quo, but as it is, it's powerful, provoking, risky and rebellious when it didn't have to be. Expand