{"id":16951,"date":"2014-11-24T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:06:22","slug":"album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Frank Turner – The Third Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Fourteen! Five full-length albums, five studio EPs, and what is now four compilation albums, all within the space of 8 years. The obvious word to bandy around at this point should be \u201cprolific\u201d. At this late juncture however, perhaps we should be regarding Frank Turner<\/strong>\u2019s copious release schedule with a little more suspicion. There\u2019s a fine line between genuine generosity and something altogether more opportunistic, especially considering the fact that Turner is a particularly vocal opponent of capitalist endeavours. As far as the music goes, ‘The Third Three Years’<\/em> is largely hit-and-miss and is unlikely to reach any further than those most hardcore of fans. <\/p>\n

Funny enough, the compilation album can be almost perfectly divided into two sets of tracks: the hits and misses. In many cases however, the hits deserve to be called so because they are the hits of other, better, artists (by which no disrespect is meant, this writer is generally an admirer of Turner\u2019s work). Queen\u2019s \u2019Somebody To Love\u2019<\/em>, Wings\u2019 \u2019Live And Let Die\u2019<\/em>, Springsteen’s \u2019Born To Run\u2019<\/em> undergo, among others, the cover treatment. For the most part, the renditions stick close to the tracks\u2019 original form and work fine. His home demo of The Weakerthans\u2019 \u2019Bigfoot\u2019<\/em> somehow manages to be even more stripped down, and the result is the sweetest you\u2019re likely to find Turner. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, none of the original tracks make much of a mark. \u2019Riot Song\u2019<\/em>, while deserving of credit for taking a less reactionary stance on the Tottenham events, stinks a whole lot of self-righteousness. It gets worse on the positively annoying \u2019Something Of Freedom\u2019<\/em>, a track so willfully unaware of its inherent hypocrisy to be almost baffling. Whenever Turner finds himself accompanied by another artist however, things tend to look up. \u2019Fields of June\u2019<\/em>s lovely boy-girl harmonies (cheers Emily Barker) gives its folky skeleton some welcome heart(break), while, considering Turner\u2019s rather flatly textured voice, Jon Snodgrass\u2019 cool tones give unusual holiday song \u2019Happy New Year\u2019<\/em> a warm edge. <\/p>\n

Which leaves us with the live versions of tracks from his most recent album and a \u201cremake\u201d of the fan-favourite \u2019The Ballad Of Me And My Friends\u2019<\/em>. The latter, as cute a nostalgic throwback as it is, can\u2019t quite emulate the warm rowdiness of its first iteration. Still, listening to it feels like coming across an old friend, and there\u2019s something heartwarming about the way the room reacts exactly the same all those years later. As for those live tracks from ‘Tape Deck Heart’<\/em>, only the top of the crop are picked and these renditions provide further proof, if any was needed, that Turner is a man of the stage. All in all, though the compilation is generally strong, there\u2019s no denying it\u2019s best suited to cherry-picking your favourite bits and ignoring the rest. <\/p>\n

3\/5<\/p>\n

‘The Third Three Years’<\/em> by Frank Turner<\/strong> is out now on Xtra Mile Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Frank Turner<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Official Website<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by James Berclaz-Lewis (@bearclawlewis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fourteen! Five full-length albums, five studio EPs, and what is now four compilation albums, all within the space of 8 years. The obvious word to bandy around at this point should be \u201cprolific\u201d. At this late juncture however, perhaps we should be regarding Frank Turner\u2019s copious release schedule with a little more suspicion. There\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8181],"tags":[5879,451,7657,4672,112,2736],"class_list":["post-16951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-post","tag-album-reviews","tag-frank-turner","tag-the-third-three-years","tag-xtra-mile","tag-xtra-mile-recordings","tag-xtra-mile-records"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAlbum Review: Frank Turner - The Third Three Years - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fourteen! Five full-length albums, five studio EPs, and what is now four compilation albums, all within the space of 8 years. The obvious word to bandy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Album Review: Frank Turner - The Third Three Years - Already Heard Staging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fourteen! Five full-length albums, five studio EPs, and what is now four compilation albums, all within the space of 8 years. The obvious word to bandy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Already Heard Staging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlreadyHeard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-11-24T14:27:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-03-17T15:06:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7f58acc8289b16fd4e46af62f353e5dd\/tumblr_inline_nfi5w237i91qztcot.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@alreadyhearduk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@alreadyhearduk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Album Review: Frank Turner - The Third Three Years - Already Heard Staging","description":"Fourteen! Five full-length albums, five studio EPs, and what is now four compilation albums, all within the space of 8 years. The obvious word to bandy","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Album Review: Frank Turner - The Third Three Years - Already Heard Staging","og_description":"Fourteen! Five full-length albums, five studio EPs, and what is now four compilation albums, all within the space of 8 years. The obvious word to bandy","og_url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/","og_site_name":"Already Heard Staging","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlreadyHeard\/","article_published_time":"2014-11-24T14:27:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-03-17T15:06:22+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7f58acc8289b16fd4e46af62f353e5dd\/tumblr_inline_nfi5w237i91qztcot.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@alreadyhearduk","twitter_site":"@alreadyhearduk","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/508ed29771f8c5b56fdcf4695f22a2a3"},"headline":"Album Review: Frank Turner – The Third Three Years","datePublished":"2014-11-24T14:27:14+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-17T15:06:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/"},"wordCount":513,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7f58acc8289b16fd4e46af62f353e5dd\/tumblr_inline_nfi5w237i91qztcot.jpg","keywords":["Album Reviews","Frank Turner","The Third Three Years","Xtra Mile","Xtra Mile Recordings","Xtra Mile Records"],"articleSection":["Album Reviews","Post"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/","url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/","name":"Album Review: Frank Turner - The Third Three Years - Already Heard Staging","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7f58acc8289b16fd4e46af62f353e5dd\/tumblr_inline_nfi5w237i91qztcot.jpg","datePublished":"2014-11-24T14:27:14+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-17T15:06:22+00:00","description":"Fourteen! Five full-length albums, five studio EPs, and what is now four compilation albums, all within the space of 8 years. The obvious word to bandy","inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-frank-turner-the-third-three-years\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7f58acc8289b16fd4e46af62f353e5dd\/tumblr_inline_nfi5w237i91qztcot.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7f58acc8289b16fd4e46af62f353e5dd\/tumblr_inline_nfi5w237i91qztcot.jpg"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#website","url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/","name":"Already Heard Staging","description":"Covering the best in alternative music as best as we can","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#organization","name":"Already Heard","url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AH-relaunch-logo-white-bg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AH-relaunch-logo-white-bg.jpg","width":500,"height":500,"caption":"Already Heard"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlreadyHeard\/","https:\/\/x.com\/alreadyhearduk","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alreadyheard\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/already-heard\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AlreadyHeardMusic","https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@alreadyhearduk","https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@alreadyheard"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/508ed29771f8c5b56fdcf4695f22a2a3","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcf4d491c971b5225a3e3c450225c0ae6ba0217be8f6ecb776a9506d4aa5595f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcf4d491c971b5225a3e3c450225c0ae6ba0217be8f6ecb776a9506d4aa5595f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcf4d491c971b5225a3e3c450225c0ae6ba0217be8f6ecb776a9506d4aa5595f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37951,"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions\/37951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}