Frank 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]