Turner opens up about plans for his next LP

Frank Turner has spoken out about his hopes and plans for his next album, revealing that he'd like it to be a 'raw, hungry, punk' record.

The people's punk poet was speaking to BBC 6 Music, when he revealed that he planned to start recording album No.6 in December.

"I want to make a really rough-around-the-edges punk rock record," he said, "so we're not going to take very long in recording it. I want to just hammer it out, me and The Sleeping Souls... I want it to sound fresh and raw and hungry."

He continued: "I had some crises of confidence about material and about who I was recording it with and where," he said. "I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I can afford to make sure that it's absolutely the right record that it needs to be, rather than just doing what I've done every other time, which is just go 'sure, just put it out!'"

Speaking to Gigwise about the album earlier this year, Turner said that the next album is 'of a sunnier disposition' to his recent work.

"With Tape Deck Heart, I'm just at a point where I can get a bit of hindsight on that record," he said. "It's a strange beast and it's a lot darker than I thought it was when I was writing it. A lot of people were like 'fuck me dude, are you really going to say that on the record?' and I was like 'yeah' but now it's quite surprising. It's definitely a record that I needed to make, on a creative as well as a personal level.

"In the future, I suspect that it will be seen as a transitional record of a kind. I'm writing quite upbeat songs at the moment, by my standards anyway - they're still about the long dark night of the soul."

Meanwhile, Turner will play two intimate shows at the The Jailhouse in Hereford on 27 and 28 November, before headlining XFM's Winter Wonderland at Academy Brixton in London on 17 December. For tickets and more information, visit here.