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Apr 22, 2013Turner's big expressive voice and gift for everyman poetry loom large over the proceedings, but there's a newfound musical effusiveness at play here as well, due in part to some tastefully simple yet sharp production from Rich Costey.
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Apr 22, 2013The production reveals his reckless yearning for more and contradictory desire for the safety of domesticity through its very slickness and reinforces the theme of Turner’s lyrics in this way. It’s a need trick, and Turner, his band, and Costey pull it off very well.
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MojoMay 20, 2013There's undeniable joie de vivre to the airpunching I want To dance but his "doing it for the kids" rhetoric and propensity to wallow in rose-tinted nostalgia gets a little corny. [Jun 2013, p.92]
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Q MagazineApr 18, 2013Wisely, everything is as it was. [May 2013, p.111]
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Apr 22, 2013An intensely personal record, the process of listening to the dozen tracks here is as intimate--and sometimes as uncomfortable--as reading pages ripped straight from Frank's diary.
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May 8, 2013His fifth LP blooms with crisply enunciated patter about bandmate bromances and childhood memories of cutting himself, with liberal squirts of acid.
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Apr 30, 2013Long and short, it’s hit and miss.
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Apr 18, 2013While 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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Apr 18, 2013This is not a record for the fair-weather Frank fan, rather one in which he sticks to his story with the stubbornness of a mule.
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Apr 23, 2013Tape 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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Apr 23, 2013The trouble isn’t with Turner’s songwriting overall--Tape Deck Heart has more than its fair share of strong songs. The trouble is the absence of the sort of fist-pumping anthem that earned Turner so many fans to begin with.
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Apr 22, 2013The reality though is that 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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Apr 18, 2013At its core, Tape Deck Heart is the kind of record we've all always wanted Frank Turner to make. [May 2013, p.83]
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Apr 29, 2013Tape Deck Heart is curiously parochial, betraying an obsession with London, from Shoreditch to Battersea power station and the late Charing Cross Road Astoria.
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Apr 23, 2013This 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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Apr 19, 2013It'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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Jun 26, 2013Tape Deck Heart [is] the kind of album that doesn’t just tell us what it feels like to have your heart cut out, it practically puts us on the operating table during the surgery – which, of course, happens before the anesthesia kicks in. And he does it so well, we willingly bleed right along with him.
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Apr 19, 2013Tape Deck Heart unfolds as an album of emotional revelation, full of elegantly melodic, perfectly formed, lyrically astute songs that always find that little bit extra.
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Jun 3, 2013Tape Deck Heart may not be quite as good as the phenomenal England Keep My Bones, but it’s a quality release with excellent lasting value that will be a mainstay on album of the year lists in 2013.
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Apr 23, 2013Unfortunately, Tape Deck Heart is not his strongest offering as a whole, but it features a number of fantastic tracks that could conceivably be "hits" and will surely become live staples.
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May 3, 2013