by
Frank Turner
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Aug 7, 2015
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Alternative PressAug 3, 2015Re-examining a broken heart is tough business, but Turner and producer Butch Walker do the work on this dozen-song effort. [Sep 2015, p.97]
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Aug 17, 2015All told, Positive Songs for Negative People is Frank Turner's most complete album since Love, Ire & Song, and perhaps his best as well.
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Aug 7, 2015Playing live together save vocals and minor overdubs. The result pushes Turner and his band back into more energetic territory after the careful, pristine sound of his previous effort.
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Sep 8, 2015The folk troubadour's sixth studio release has been presented as his "defining statement" and it's true, the Wessex boy has delivered something truly wonderful.
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Aug 11, 2015Expectations may not exactly be lived up to the way you had hoped. You just may, however, find that your expectations were wrong in the first place. That’s right, Positive Songs for Negative People is more than worth your time.
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Aug 3, 2015At times his roar-throated tone gets repetitive, but Denver singer/songwriter Esmé Patterson adds subtle vocal contrast on the haunting Silent Key.
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Jul 30, 2015Every album is a chapter in Frank’s on-going aural autobiography, and Positive Songs is his Getting Over It dispatch.
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Q MagazineJul 30, 2015Confrontational yet communal. It's what his fans adore the most and, more than any of his previous five studio albums, Positive Songs For Negative People has it in spades. [Sep 2015, p.115]
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Aug 5, 2015The album’s best songs are those that more readily acknowledge life’s small tragedies.
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Aug 17, 2015It's an invigorating, infectious set that reaffirms Turner's faith in music's power to motivate and heal.
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Aug 11, 2015Positive Songs for Negative People lives up to its name and is an enjoyably straight forward record. Unfortunately, the album’s biggest strength also holds it back from ranking among his finest, as the overarching optimism makes the record feel slightly thin and superficial compared to his previous offerings.
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Aug 4, 2015Turner leaves behind considerable wreckage with Positive Songs--in ways both cathartic and clumsy. And as usual, he goes down swinging.
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