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At a recording pace of around one album per year since being signed as a solo artist, Frank Turner is definitely an artist for whom I have a fair amount of respect: his punk ethic has not been lost since his change of pace from Million Dead to his folk-rock efforts as Frank Turner. [...]
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I am fully aware that this album was released ten years ago, but I find music anything but ephemeral: the very nature of the CD/vinyl-press permits music to live for as long as it is desired to be played. Now that this pseudo-philosophical point addressing the nature of music and its transience has been [...]
With the demise of Starve in Heaven, I felt that this deserved a repost.
James Summerfield’s MySpace
Birmingham seems to be at the forefront of a new wave of folk- and country-inspired music, with the likes of Sam Bentley, Friends of the Stars etc. coming to the favour of ourselves and other local media. And here, in [...]
Yes, Ben Marwood is yet another British singer-songwriter; yes, Ben Marwood is yet another pretty boy who can play guitar; and yes, Ben Marwood does sell his records in HMV (call me an indie snob, I do not care). All of this perceived negativity, however, is mere prejudice and doesn’t even hold up to the [...]
I have been enamoured by the music of Frank Turner since the release (and my subsequent purchase) of Sleep is for the Week in January 2007. Even in spite of its early release in the year, I knew that it was to become one of my favourite albums of the year. And that it did: [...]
