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10.0
78864
10.0 |
Gig Soup
To sum up this album one has to look no further than the title. If you’re a negative person then these are the positive songs for you and if you’re a positive person? Well there’s no such thing as being too positive is there?
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8.3
78686
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Positive Songs For Negative People is about recognizing flaws but being unwilling to make peace with them, always striving for more from life
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8.0
79000
8.0 |
State
Stealthily combines the stadium with the studio and leaves both old and new fans looking forward to a long-term love affair with a tattooed troubadour
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8.0
78541
8.0 |
NME
Rallying cries and meditations on the darker side of life make up the arena-punk star's sixth album
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8.0
78544
8.0 |
Q
Confrontational yet communal. Print edition only
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8.0
79532
8.0 |
Clash
A powerful listen
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7.5
78603
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Turner sounds quieter, more contemplative, less willing to tempt the demons he knows are coming for him anyway
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7.0
78542
7.0 |
The Music
The words still pour out with punkish urgency
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7.0
79299
7.0 |
Beardfood
Although the larger sound of Turner's folk punk is no turnoff, it can’t mask the wayward songwriting
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7.0
78841
7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Frank Turner proves once again that he’s present in the moment and enjoying the fruits of his labour in the here and now: he wants you to do the same
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6.8
78615
6.8 |
Paste Magazine
Turner leaves behind considerable wreckage with Positive Songs—in ways both cathartic and clumsy. And as usual, he goes down swinging
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6.0
78691
6.0 |
The Guardian
A deeply straightforward and unambiguously earnest affair
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6.0
78711
6.0 |
The Observer
Lacks the lyrical coherence that made 2011’s England Keep My Bones such a psycho-geographical tour de force, and is more in keeping with 2013’s patchy Tape Deck Heart
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6.0
78543
6.0 |
Mojo
What he lacks in lyrical bravura he makes up for with arena sized melodic hooks. Print edition only
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6.0
78609
6.0 |
God Is In The TV
Probably his weakest album to date, there is simply too much filler
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6.0
78556
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Along the way expect choruses designed to get punk pulses racing
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5.0
78545
5.0 |
Uncut
All this bombast gets a little wearying after a while. Print edition only
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5.0
78732
5.0 |
Rolling Stone
Maybe subtlety's not his thing, but Turner's got a goofy kind of grandeur
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4.0
78693
4.0 |
The Independent
Frankly, negative people have a right to more inventive positivism than this
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4.0
78540
4.0 |
DIY
Largely forgettable in a way that Frank Turner’s best could never be accused of
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3.0
78547
3.0 |
Drowned In Sound
At his best Turner can be immensely charming and gloriously witty. Sadly, these facts only makes the dreary, alarmingly soulless retreads that populate most of Positive Songs for Negative People all the more depressing
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