Album Review: Frank Turner - Positive Songs For Negative People

On his sixth album It's business as usual from Frank Turner. He always reminds me of a cross between Billy Bragg mixed with The Clash. The album was made with his backing band The Sleeping Souls and produced by Butch Walker in Nashville.

The album opens up in rousing mood with Get Better where he says "we can better because we are not dead yet". He always had a way with words but the track has a melody that refuses to let go.

Other stand out tracks are The Next Storm, you can imagine this track being one of the standout tracks when he tours the UK in November, which incidentally visits The Sheffield Academy on 19 November. On Glorious You he takes some inspiration from Oasis albeit on a much faster level, you wonder how he can come up with such great songs when he is already six albums into his career.

On Love Forty Down he delivers another emotional vocal where he tells us he is "battered and bruised and he can't afford to loose". The track may only be just two and a half minutes long but as always he gets his message across.

Much of the album was recorded live and you can hear that in the tracks, he has managed to catch the vibe and energy of his live shows on this cracking album. If you had never heard of Frank before this new album is a good introduction to him, for the fans the album is a great return to form.


4 out of 5.