Frank Turner
September 11th, 2009Frank Turner is a singer-songwriter who plays an interesting combination of folk, indie and punk. This is sometimes cheesy. You know, like Offspring-pop cheesy with the vocals and stuff. However, I really enjoy the atmosphere of the new record titled Poetry of the Deed. He has a romantic-idealist drive and this, combined with his talents of expression, makes his music a great channel of energy. Seriously, you wanna rise up and fight. Not sure against what but when was punk sure about its enemies? Other than this, epic balladry, country-folk acoustic stuff, poetic lyrics and a total emotional attachment are what I think describe his sound. He is a kind of Bob Dylan character with a Clash-like ‘fuck you’ in his soul. Of course, the whole thing seems anachronic. This is one of its weaknesses and gives it some charm. The contradiction between T. S. Eliot-allusions in song titles and the sometimes too simplistic manifestos is charming in my view. Nevertheless, he has pretty cool songs if you’re willing to bypass certain intellectual barriers (it’s a hard task cause the music and the lyrics evoke them in the first place) and Poetry of the Deed is a good album. It came out on Epitaph, buy it (for example here)! My favourite song so far is The Road, it also has a video.
Frank Turner - The Road [mediafire] // [ysi]
October 31st, 2009 at 9:04 am
Oh dear.
An Old Etonian, from old money, who plays shows to bored white middle-class teenagers. And of course they lap it up. If you’re finishing school and moving on to college or university, then Frank will fall over himself to provide a winsome backdrop to your fatuous self-regard. The requisite “intellectual barrier” is just shorthand for ’sense of smug pseudo-intellectual superiority’.
I mean, just look at the expression on his face.
November 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
aj your an idiot
November 7th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
self-regard….? throw a few more big words in there bigshot