Live Review: To Be Frank 'Let It Go'

Suffolk based TO BE FRANK has provided a number of winning EPs (3 to be precise, each as memorable as the last) and now we get a taste of new track 'Let It Go' to be the released on his debut full length album 'U', out on the 26th January.

As a talented multi instrumentalist, Frank juggles with a variety of sounds, each track eliciting a sense of curiosity of what is to come next. Utilising gentle piano chords in 'Somebody Like You' to glitchy electornic synths in 'Half the man' and to go as far as fusing both sounds in 'The Only One', whichever sound he chooses to accompany his crooning, it's his penetrating vocals which entrap you.

For 'Let It Go' Frank takes on his down tempo electronic alias, with a powerful arrangement of slow percussion and his tender vocals telling the bitter-sweet tale of break up.

TO BE FRANK's talent has not gone unnoticed - as he was picked up on DJ Gilles Peterson ’s radar and included on his ‘Brownswood Bubblers 11’ compilation- notorious for spotting future talent, following this, Zane Lowe featured Frank on a number of Radio one spots and after performing a live session at the legendary Maida Vale, Frank gained a Radio 1 Introducing Playlist with breakthrough track ‘If You Love Her’.

If you're a JAMES BLAKE fan, TO BE FRANK is absolutely a sound for your ears. 

Words by Hollie Cunningham

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