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| 2.5 average | Project | May 4th 18 |
Do you like on-the-nose lyrics that are topical without saying anything? Do you like people
telling you that every cloud has a silver lining? Do you like the music you hear in the background
on Toyota commercials? Well boy howdy are you gonna like this! There are a few genuinely
enjoyable songs (Blackout and Common Ground, which are strangely the least 'typical Frank' songs
here), but it's musically trite and lyrically almost entirely devoid of substance. Sincerity
doesn't mean much when you have nothing to say.
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| 1.5 very poor | butcherboy | May 4th 18 |
the pointless troubadour returns to ruin your local pub..
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| 2.5 average | jmh886 | May 4th 18 |
songs just seem so simple and safe. need more from frank and co.
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| 2.5 average | Comatorium. | May 3rd 18 |
Frank Turner treads some new ground and kinda nails it- the album is enough of a branching out sonically without being
alienating, it?s really admirable how much he expanded his sound and how natural and effortless it came out.
Significantly more dynamic and lush than his previous output, there is some tangible Eels influence here, and the album
is all the more better for it, utilizing strings and brass for the emotional peaks and valleys and subtle electronic
flourishes everywhere between. Let?s just rejoice that Make America Great Again was a one-off fluke and that Be More
Kind sits comfortably as a more than solid addition to Frank?s endlessly solid discography.
Edit- Coming back to this in 2024 it’s sad how much this was really the beginning of the end for Frank
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| 3.0 good | Atari EMERITUS | May 7th 18 |
It's not Frank's best, but also not nearly as bad as it's being made out to be. With the politically-charged themes this could have been a heavy-handed mess, but it's perhaps Turner's most laid back and carefree album to date. Of course, this will translate as boring to some, but it's a nice change of pace for a man who typically churns out rowdy punk tunes. Fear not, his knack for stringing together clever verses like falling dominos is as evident as ever on "Little Changes", and some horns are even thrown in for good measure. It's not the loud Turner many of us have grown accustomed to, but as opener "Don't Worry" makes apparent, it doesn't have to be.
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| 2.5 average | DeffSledge | May 12th 18 |
I was disappointed with this release. The attempt to incorporate new instrumentation didn't seem
like an evolution of Frank's sound so much as a hodgepodge of styles lifted from bands he wanted
to emulate. And the political takes were pretty toothless (aside from maybe 1933). Bland overall.
// My full track-by-track review: https://youtu.be/w9TW_grCftM
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| 1.0 awful | BjannySpjann | May 7th 18 |
This album is dog shite. What happened? Frank is finishen.. out of ideas
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| 1.5 very poor | chaywa | May 5th 18 |
Remember folk punk Frank Turner? Yeah this album certain doesn't. The best songs on this can't lick the boots of Poetry of the Deed, let alone England Takes My Bones or Love, Ire and Song and is composed of bland political and socioeconomic observations with the lyrical depth of a high school drop out band.
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| 3.5 great | JTFly17 | September 25th 25 |
| 2.5 average | Mojito | February 4th 25 |
| 1.5 very poor | El Olam | November 13th 24 |
| 2.0 poor | Prole | December 29th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Tim00w | November 1st 21 |
| 2.5 average | bSmith | March 22nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | cb123 | July 14th 20 |
| 3.5 great | JayKb | May 12th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Sowing STAFF | May 11th 20 |
| 1.5 very poor | TVparty | March 2nd 20 |
| 3.0 good | thawey | August 19th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | stasar | February 7th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Kestrel | January 24th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Vaio | January 7th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Surette | December 11th 18 |
| 2.5 average | bungy | September 11th 18 |
| 2.5 average | gilly | June 10th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | JanK | June 2nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | May 17th 18 |
| 2.5 average | jesper EMERITUS | May 15th 18 |
| 2.5 average | tom79 | May 11th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | Rail | May 10th 18 |
| 3.0 good | MH18 | May 9th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | JS19 | May 7th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | Skoop | May 5th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | Brad | May 5th 18 |
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