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Positive Songs For Negative People

Frank Turner

Positive Songs For Negative People

Album six of alt.folk/pop from the English singer-songwriter

ADM rating[?]

6.4

Label
Polydor Group
UK Release date
07/08/2015
US Release date
07/08/2015
  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 8.0 |   Q

    Confrontational yet communal. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Clash

    A powerful listen
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  7. 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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  8. 7.0 |   The Music

    The words still pour out with punkish urgency
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    A deeply straightforward and unambiguously earnest affair
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  13. 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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  14. 6.0 |   Mojo

    What he lacks in lyrical bravura he makes up for with arena sized melodic hooks. Print edition only

  15. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Probably his weakest album to date, there is simply too much filler
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  16. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Along the way expect choruses designed to get punk pulses racing
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  17. 5.0 |   Uncut

    All this bombast gets a little wearying after a while. Print edition only

  18. 5.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Maybe subtlety's not his thing, but Turner's got a goofy kind of grandeur
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  19. 4.0 |   The Independent

    Frankly, negative people have a right to more inventive positivism than this
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  20. 4.0 |   DIY

    Largely forgettable in a way that Frank Turner’s best could never be accused of
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  21. 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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