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Banks & Steelz -a musical collaboration between Wu Tang Clan’s RZA and Interpol’s Paul Banks – have released “Giant,” the second track and official single from their forthcoming album Anything But Words”

Produced by John Hill and Kid Harpoon (Florence + The Machine), “Giant” premiered yesterday after an exclusive interview with Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 program: http://apple.co/_BanksSteelz.

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Listen to ‘Giant’:

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“Giant” follows the first look from the August 26^th album, “Love and War.” Watch the Arms Race-directed video HERE.

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Banks & Steelz simultaneously revealed the album’s track-listing – which features appearances byFlorence Welch of Florence + The Machine, Kool Keith, and Wu Tan Clan’s Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Masta Killa – in addition to a series of tour and festival dates through October (see below).

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 RZA and Banks first began working on music together in 2013. RZA told Rolling Stone at the time that the idea to collaborate with the Interpol frontman sparked after RZA’s manager asked him who he wanted to do an album with. “When I met Paul, I recognized the New York energy he has as a music artist,” RZA says. “We got to know each other playing chess and vibing out in the studio. Our talents connected in a unique way and we started writing songs. The outcome was something distinctively different from my previous work, yet with another layer of cool.”

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