Frank Turner has introduced his new album ‘Undefeated’ and launched a brand new single, ‘Do One’ – hearken to it beneath.
The album, which will probably be launched on Could 3, is Turner’s first album again working with an impartial label alongside Xtra Mile Recordings. It is going to be the veteran rocker’s tenth solo album – pre-save/pre-order right here.
“There aren’t any clichés in regards to the tough tenth album, so in some methods, that’s a liberating assertion,” Turner mentioned in regards to the forthcoming report. “However on the identical time, I’ve an obligation to justify writing and releasing a tenth album. That’s a whole lot of data for anyone. Additionally, I’m 42. Which isn’t a horny, rock’n’roll age. However all via my profession, I’ve been fascinated with writers like Loudon Wainwright III or The Maintain Regular, individuals who write about maturity, basically.”
Right this moment, he additionally launched his new single ‘Do One’, a liberating anthem which sees Turner declare: “I’m nonetheless standing up and there’s nothing you are able to do”. “‘Do One’ is the final track I wrote for the brand new album, and the primary track on that album, in addition to the primary single,” he mentioned in regards to the single.
“So it’s a summation of what I’m attempting to say with this report, a report about survival and defiance, but in addition one with a way of enjoyable and self-deprecation. 19 years into my solo profession, I’m nonetheless standing up and placing out a few of my greatest work. It feels good.” Take a hear beneath:
Frank Turner’s ‘Undefeated’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Do One’
2. ‘By no means Thoughts The Again Issues’
3. ‘Ceasefire’
4. ‘Lady From The Report Store’
5. ‘Pandemic PTSD’
6. ‘Letters’
7. ‘East Finchley’
8. ‘No Thank You For The Music’
9. ‘The Leaders’
10. ‘Worldwide Cover and Search Champions’
11. ‘Present Individuals’
12. ‘On My Manner’
13. ‘Someplace Inbetween’
14. ‘Undefeated’
Turner final launched music with 2022’s ‘FTHC’, an album which noticed him acquire his first UK Quantity One. The report examined his relationship together with his trans mum or dad in addition to reflecting on Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchinson’s dying, which he spoke about with NME.
“It’s a track about grief, loss and suicide, nevertheless it’s additionally a celebration of a life and a person. It’s about acceptance,” mentioned Turner. “It’s a tough factor to speak about, nevertheless it breaks my fucking coronary heart what Scott determined to do, however he didn’t make a mistake – he made a alternative. It’s a alternative that I want he hadn’t made and I want I may have talked him out of it or no matter selfish factor I may say about that, however he decided and there’s part of me that desires to recognise my good friend’s personal sovereignty.
“I need to discover a means of being cool with that in some way as a result of it helps me be cool with my good friend. I don’t need to be pissed off at him.”