NOFX & Frank Turner – West Coast vs. Wessex (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

NOFX & Frank Turner – West Coast vs. Wessex (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:55 minutes | 349 MB | Genre: Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fat Wreck Chords

How often does the leader of one of your favorite bands ask you to do a split album? Where his band covers your songs? Singer-songwriter Frank Turner found himself in that situation last year, when Fat Mike of NOFX asked if he wanted to do a split covers album. West Coast vs. Wessex shows NOFX filtering five of Frank Turner’s songs through their singular sensibility, with Turner doing the same on five NOFX songs. But these aren’t simply double-time versions of Turner’s folk-punk tunes or slow, acoustic reworkings of NOFX’s iconic SoCal punk anthems. Both NOFX and Frank Turner took time to play with the possibilities each other’s music presented. They also put a lot of thought into the songs they chose to cover. Both groups really wanted to songs that presented an opportunity to create something unique, and bring something to the song that really made it their own. For Frank Turner’s side, the result was a tracklist that pulls more or less from deeper in NOFX’s discography. NOFX classic Bob being the exception, Turner transforms into a wistful country song. Perfect Government is joyously turned into a barroom singalong, along with a punked up Scavenger Type, the post-hardcore Eat the Meek, and a spare, haunting Falling in Love. On the NOFX side, their climactic take on Substitute could’ve fit on Punk in Drublic. Worse Things Happen at Sea simmers with an ominous portent. The jaunty Thatcher Fucked the Kids sounds like a companion to NOFX’s Philthy Phil Philanthropist. The Ballad of Me and My Friends, lilting and bittersweet in Frank Turner’s original, goes balls-out here. Glory Hallelujah sounds like a lost track from Fat Mike’s stage musical, Home Street Home. There is no loser on West Coast Vs. Wessex. The Frank Turner-Fat Mike Mutual Admiration Society has produced 10 hooky reimaginings of each other’s music. The novelty may pique listeners’ curiosity, but the songs will keep them coming back.

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Frank Turner – Show 2000 – Live At Nottingham Rock City (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Frank Turner – Show 2000 – Live At Nottingham Rock City (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:56 minutes | 977 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

Capturing Turner’s 2000th solo show to date in audio and video formats, the new release encapsulates everything a classic Frank Turner live show involves – blistering high energy performance, mass audience sing-a-long and a beautiful community spirit. The night was a real celebration of Frank having performed 2000 live shows in a little over 10 years – which averages out to a consistently amazing 200+ shows a year. “I’m very happy to finally have the recordings of my 2000th show out there in the world – it’s been a long time coming. It was a perfect show, and a great document of a certain place in time and in my career”

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Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:25 minutes | 988 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

In the decade after the breakup of his retro punk outfit Million Dead, singer/songwriter Frank Turner has transformed himself from the solo folk-punk singer who played dank London basements to headlining Wembley, writing a best-selling autobiography, and becoming the subject of ideological political intrigue in The Guardian. Like 2013’s Tape Deck Heart, Positive Songs for Negative People looks back and in, but only as a way of integrating a bruised and broken self. Backing band the Sleeping Souls and producer Butch Walker are the twin engines that fuel his transformation. “The Angel of Islington” is a solo acoustic number. From the banks of the River Thames, he desires to “wash my feet and cleanse my sins…” He’s pondering the relationship that was so devastating on Tape Deck Heart, but resolves to move beyond it no matter the cost. “Get Better” is a melodic, anthemic basher (complete with Springsteen-esque pianos), where Turner testifies “I got me a future/I’m not stuck in the past/I’ve got no new tricks…But me, I’m a machine and I’m built to last.” By the time he reaches the end, he’s no longer merely talking about himself but exhorting all of us to “get better.” Further on, buoyed by boisterous electric guitars and a bruising snare, Turner sings about stepping out from his desolation to face “The Next Storm.” As the album moves on, his songs address over and again the topic of emergence and his belief — naive though it may be — in the power of rock & roll to engage the collective “us” as a way of redeeming the world one individual at a time. In “Glorious,” via blended acoustic and electric guitars, slipshod snare, and a rumbling bassline, he gets under the skin of the listener: “Come on now, if we all pulled together/We could lift the weight of the world from your shoulders….” His declaration is answered by an enormous backing chorus, which gives it the conviction of a gospel song. The clattering, punk burn of “Out of Breath,” with its triple-time snare, careening piano, and wiry guitars, is the album’s most unhinged track; it’s Turner’s closest musical relation to his work with Million Dead. “Demons,” another soaring rocker, addresses disappointments, compromises, and hard-won blessings: “At this truth we have arrived/God damn it’s great to be alive.” Out of character — at least on the surface — is “Silent Key,” a poignant story of astronaut Christa McAuliffe’s final radio transmission from the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger, but fits the album’s overall themes. Positive Songs for Negative People is a transitory record. Musically, it doesn’t contain anything new — that’s for an album further down the road — but it doesn’t need to. Here, solid songs filled with common-sense poetry bristle with renewed energy and purpose. It’s an invigorating, infectious set that reaffirms Turner’s faith in music’s power to motivate and heal.

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Frank Turner – Live In Newcastle (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frank Turner – Live In Newcastle (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:42:21 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls today announce the release of a new album, ‘Live In Newcastle’, due out on April 24, 2020, via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records. Captured at O2 City Hall Newcastle last November.

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Frank Turner – FTHC (Deluxe) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frank Turner - FTHC (Deluxe) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Frank Turner – FTHC (Deluxe) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:52 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

‘FTHC’ is the ninth solo album from British punk and folk artist Frank Turner. Initially striking out as a vocalist in the punk rock band Million Dead, Turner then turned his focus towards a folkier, acoustic-based solo career. Since that time, he has reached international acclaim as a chart-topping, award-winning singer-songwriter. Taking inspiration from early ’80s US hardcore band logos, ‘FTHC’ stands for Frank Turner Hardcore. Deluxe version includes alternative artwork.
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