Indier Than Thou: Frank Turner - Sleep is for the Week

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Frank Turner - Sleep is for the Week

So, perhaps you all know of this man. Perhaps not. He seems to be attracting a fair amount of critical attention. His self description runs as follows: "I like to consider myself part of a wider continuum of UK-based folk-influenced music."


Frank Turner's songs start out sounding like misplaced Oasis B-sides, but the lyrics are surprising and catchy, and the melodies are full of as many surprises as Neutral Milk Hotel's On Avery Island (and they are surprising in the same way: the sudden soaring up an octave and the unexpected dropping down one, the long, lovely sustained notes, etc.). It's just him singing and playing a guitar. Neat, me thinks. Your thoughts?

1 Comments:

Blogger Panda said...

yes yes yes!
"we're all wondering how we ended up so scared
we spent ten long years teaching our kids not to care
and there's no such thing as society anyway

and all the rich folks act surprised
when all sense of community dies

and you just close your eyes
to the other side,
of all the things that she did,
Thatcher fucked the kids!"

3:20 PM  

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