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England Keep My Bones
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  • Summary: This is the fourth studio album for the British folk rock singer-songwriter.
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I Still Believe
Hear ye, hear ye, friends and Romans, countrymen. Hear ye, hear ye, punks and skins and journeymen Hear ye, hear ye, my sisters and my brethren. The... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Sputnikmusic
    Jun 6, 2011
    90
    England Keep My Bones finally gets the combination right and stands right alongside Love, Ire and Song as one of Frank Turner's best works.
  2. Absolute Punk (Staff reviews)
    Jun 6, 2011
    89
    England, Keep My Bones is Turner's most emphatic success and the best singer/songwriter album that will be released in 2011.
  3. Paste Magazine
    Jun 6, 2011
    84
    Smart young miscreants that have outgrown the Warped Tour but aren't ready for the Ted Leo back catalog could do worse, and acoustic rock fans that want more than somnolent campfire melodies couldn't do much better.
  4. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jun 6, 2011
    80
    With the standard set, Turner brings an almost literal meaning to the notion of 'traditional English punk' and, as always, it's a fearless venture for an artist with something interesting to say.
  5. Spin
    Jun 6, 2011
    80
    Frank Turner gives sincerity a good name on the rousing England Keep My Bones, an exclamation point in an increasingly brilliant career that ranges from early punk spew to more recent folkie testimony.
  6. BBC Music
    Jun 6, 2011
    80
    Throughout this is an album of sufficient character, quality, daring and charm to ensure that its creator's unlikely march to the mainstream continues without interruption.
  7. Mojo
    Jun 21, 2011
    40
    Certainly, these times demand an earnest folk-punk poet of the poeple, but Turner's tracts are a little too woolly to truly connect. [July 2011, p. 105]
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  1. Doctorsicknote
    Jun 12, 2011
    10
    Frank Turner does it again, after a few years wait England Keep my Bones is finally here and Frank has written his best album yet. With a wideFrank Turner does it again, after a few years wait England Keep my Bones is finally here and Frank has written his best album yet. With a wide variety of tracks from harder songs like "One Foot Before the Other" to softer tracks like "Nights Become Days"… Expand
  2. The_King
    Dec 25, 2011
    10
    Possibly my favourite album of the year. Not one song I don't like to be honest. Some of Frank's best in 'I Still Believe', 'Peggy Sang ThePossibly my favourite album of the year. Not one song I don't like to be honest. Some of Frank's best in 'I Still Believe', 'Peggy Sang The Blues', 'I Am Disappeared' and 'Glory Hallelujah'. Also, I would recommend the deluxe version, since 'Song for Eva Mae' (especially) is up there with the best of the 12 standard tracks.… Expand