Frank Turner

Singer/songwriter Frank Turner turned his attention to folkier acoustic music after the demise of his hardcore outfit Million Dead. Since then, he's transformed himself into an internationally successful, award-winning singer and songwriter of consequential folk-punk-pop rebel songs, covering topics like atheism, sexism, excessive drinking, and the power of rock & roll. Drawing press comparisons to Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen among others, Turner nonetheless occupies a niche of his own in British popular music. Making his Top 200 debut with 2011's England Keep My Bones, Turner's sound on successive albums has expanded to embrace various rock and pop influences without blunting his lyrical voice. 2013's Tape Deck Heart entered the Top 50, and by the time he released the almost-mainstream Be More Kind in 2018, Turner was selling out concerts on both sides of the Atlantic well in advance. 2024's Undefeated saw him returning to independent labels while sounding bold and as committed as ever.