Since then I have hyped myself endlessly. Anyone who knows me knows I live by Frank Turner’s music, and he always has this incredibly uncanny way of describing my exact feelings in his songs. So when he announced the title of this album way back when, I could only have the highest hopes.
And, as with everything Frank Turner, I am far from being disappointed.
I am a negative person by nature. And what with recently finishing a degree and finding myself poor and unable to find any sort of paying job, an album full of positive and hopeful songs is exactly what I needed. As with nearly all of his other lyrics, Frank seems to describe my life once more, which means that the hopeful tone to a lot of this album hits hard in true Frank Turner fashion.
As for the album itself, it is standard Frank Turner fare, which is by no means bad. This is his sixth solo album, not including previous work, EPs and compilation albums. It is safe to say that he knows what he is doing, and has thus hit a very good balance of having enough fast/upbeat songs, with just a few of the slower ones dispersed near perfectly. And of course, Frank saved the slowest song, yet the one with the most punch to it right until last.
The one thing that this album is lacking is Frank’s usual rage and anger. Or rather, a complete lack of swearing, which is something I had grown used to, but has seemingly been used in fewer and fewer of his new songs. This is a slow change that I’m not sure what to make of. On the one hand, anger is very cathartic. Being able to shout and swear can be a great release. However, this album in particular, is not intended to be a release of anger, but instead sings of hope. Songs like Get Better are not lacking in power just because they lack in swear words and rage.
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