Album Review: England Keep My Bones From Frank Turner

English folk/punk Frank Turner has just returned with another great album on June 7th. I had been looking forward to this release since England Keep My Bone's first single, "I Still Believe," came out at the end of 2010. This is a tune all about the power of rock and roll to still move and empower us. It's rousing and I like to play it loud.

What I really like about Frank Turner, and he nails it on the new album, is his ability to balance the personal and political in his music without being preachy on one side or overly-sentimental on the other. I listen to his music and I enjoy it viscerally, but I also feel some personal and political challenge to it. That's the punk side of it.

Frank Turner is a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. This isn't evidenced in any derivative way, but it's more, well, spiritual in nature. It's a way of telling stories and moving listeners.

"Now who'd of thought, that after all / something as simple as rock n roll would save us all." Actually, a whole hell of a lot of us. And I for one am thankful to Frank Turner for being a part of it.