Frank Turner - Vital Signs
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Frank Turner
Release Date: 25/12/06
Label: Xtra Mile
Rating: ****
Upon hearing the start of 'Vital Signs', one can't help but smile. It becomes clear very fast that Turner has moulded himself into a modern version of legendary Lindisfarne lyricist Alan Hull - both can link, sometimes even rhyme, simple words yet join them with the most breath-taking of lead ups ("I'll be dead but never dying, and I say that with a smile, it’s just my way of trying to be alive").
The amusingly-titled 'Heartless Bastard Motherfucker' has a very jazzy-guitar which could easily be the brass section, and it is accompanied by a perhaps-ironic grimy tale of a truthful scumbag ("I'm not the only one who regrets how they act, but I seem to be the only one who's honest with the facts").
It's hard to judge Frank Turner – his music is truthful, beautiful and real, everything The X Factor tells us it shouldn't be. Why is it, then, that he most definitely has it?
Han Quintrell
Frank Turner Official Site
Frank Turner Myspace
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Release Date: 25/12/06
Label: Xtra Mile
Rating: ****
Upon hearing the start of 'Vital Signs', one can't help but smile. It becomes clear very fast that Turner has moulded himself into a modern version of legendary Lindisfarne lyricist Alan Hull - both can link, sometimes even rhyme, simple words yet join them with the most breath-taking of lead ups ("I'll be dead but never dying, and I say that with a smile, it’s just my way of trying to be alive").
The amusingly-titled 'Heartless Bastard Motherfucker' has a very jazzy-guitar which could easily be the brass section, and it is accompanied by a perhaps-ironic grimy tale of a truthful scumbag ("I'm not the only one who regrets how they act, but I seem to be the only one who's honest with the facts").
It's hard to judge Frank Turner – his music is truthful, beautiful and real, everything The X Factor tells us it shouldn't be. Why is it, then, that he most definitely has it?
Han Quintrell
Frank Turner Official Site
Frank Turner Myspace
Buy Frank Turner CDs | Buy Frank Turner mp3s | Buy Frank Turner Tickets | Buy Frank Turner Merch
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