{"product_id":"frank-turner-sleep-is-for-the-week-music-cd","title":"Frank Turner - Sleep Is for the Week (Music CD)","description":"Following up on his debut EP Campfire Punkrock, Bahrain-born, London-based acoustic singer\/songwriter Frank Turner makes his full-length bow with 2007's Sleep is for the Week. Former leader of the political punks Million Dead, Turner's solo records are more along the lines of very early Billy Bragg: social-minded rants and more personal lyrics performed mostly on acoustic guitar with minimal accompaniment. Turner is not Bragg's equal as a wit: indeed, an almost painful earnestness permeates songs like \"Father's Day,\" a standard-issue generation gap song culminating in the my-how-perceptive line \"For better or for worse, I am turning into you.\" It's not all as wet as that, however: the rueful \"Ladies of London Town\" is a self-deprecating dating song, and \"A Decent Cup of Tea\" comes closest to Bragg's knack for short story-like lyrical detail. The album's twin highlights are \"Once We Were Anarchists,\" a wry tune about the passions of youth colliding with the real world, and the simply charming \"Back in the Day,\" a tune about hardcore punk's glory days, played on the banjo, that recalls the more recent, folky side of Half Man Half Biscuit. ~ Stewart Mason\r\n","brand":"Not Assigned","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55969099940225,"sku":"XMR128CD","price":12.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/frank-turner-sleep-is-for-the-week-music-cd","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}