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9.2
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9.2 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
This is much more of a traditional rock record than anything else Frank has done, and that’s a good thing because it means that it’s probably the most consistent album he’s made
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8.6
54390
8.6 |
AltSounds
Tape Deck Heart is Frank Turner's most personal album to date
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8.0
53693
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Contains some of the rawest songs Turner has ever written
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8.0
53629
8.0 |
The Guardian
While this is a more philosophical, even tender Turner than we're used to, everything is crafted with his usual love and care, and delivered with fire and conviction
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8.0
53630
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
An album of emotional revelation, full of elegantly melodic, perfectly formed, lyrically astute songs
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8.0
53667
8.0 |
NME
An intensely personal record
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8.0
53672
8.0 |
PopMatters
Really strong, anthemic music
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8.0
53684
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Fortunately, he has the transcendent gift of melody, as heard on Recovery and Tell Tale Signs, and the fondness for a vibrant acoustic strummalong
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7.5
53729
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Tape Deck Heart might be a far cry from Turner’s strident acoustic punk roots, but his brutally honest self-reflection and unflinching romantic analysis elevate the record into something just as meaningful
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7.0
53696
7.0 |
All Music
A revelatory set of breakup songs, nostalgic ballads, and hedonistic pub rockers
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7.0
53628
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It is typically rousing and autobiographical - and Frank Turner does rousing and autobiographical like no other
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7.0
54374
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Highly quotable, sometimes deliriously catchy rants about life after punk
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6.5
53773
6.5 |
Paste Magazine
Fun isn’t absent from Tape Deck Heart, but it’s often subdued by the subject matte
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6.0
53886
6.0 |
The Observer
The songs are rooted in English folk, only with anthemic, stadium-friendly choruses neatly woven in
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6.0
54056
6.0 |
Mojo
May be Turner's most accessible record to date. Print edition only
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6.0
53631
6.0 |
The Irish Times
This break- up album is far from musically dour
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6.0
53632
6.0 |
The Independent
It's punk-folk pop with its heart on its sleeve and urgency overwhelming reflection, closer to Green Day than, say, Leonard Cohen
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6.0
53666
6.0 |
Q
Ex-Etonian mixes up the personal and political. Print edition only
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5.0
53692
5.0 |
DIY
Your ability to get on board with this record will depend more or less entirely on how you feel about its lyrical content
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