Plan B - Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose

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Finally Ben Drew’s fourth album becomes actual rather than imminent: he was trailing it in the Guardian 11 months ago, when he was talking it up as an “art statement”, and he premiered much of it at a one-off London show last summer.

The single In the Name of Man, released in May 2017, doesn’t appear on the album, and Heartbeat, which does, peaked at No 100 last autumn. All of which suggests what is euphemistically known as “a troubled gestation”.