Tape Deck Heart
British singer-songwriter Frank Turner is a music-industry throwback. In spite of his position in some circles as an artist new to America (mainly because the new Tape Deck Heart, his fifth studio album, is being distributed in the U.S. via major label Interscope instead of Epitaph), the 31-year-old folk-punk is an…
Frank Turner, who once sang “music, it’s my substitute for love” (on “Substitute,” from 2008’s Love Ire & Song), now turns…
His fifth studio effort since reinventing himself as a fiery, civic-minded folksinger, Tape Deck Heart finds the former frontman for hardcore punk rockers Million Dead dialing back the political fervor and unleashing a revelatory set of breakup songs, nostalgic ballads, and hedonistic pub rockers that falls somewhere between the wounded blue-collar humor of Billy Bragg and the benevolent swagger of Against Me!
Frank Turner follows his 2011 breakthrough album with a similar collection of anthemic folk pop, writes <strong>Phil Mongredien</strong>
It's a shade more personal than we're used to from Frank Turner, but everything on his fifth album as beautifully crafted as ever, says <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>
Frank Turner's Tape Deck Heart unfolds as an album of emotional revelation, full of elegantly melodic, perfectly formed, lyrically astute songs, says Neil McCormick.
Former punk rocker gets personal - but still finds time to dance. CD review by Lisa-Marie Ferla