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8.0
980
8.0 |
Clash
They always say you've been writing your first album all your life. As a result, this one is awash with varying influences and sounds, all derived from electro and pop in their foundations but each still quite significantly different from another
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8.0
982
8.0 |
The Times
It’s all rather 1980s but Frank is too young to be burdened by the decade’s most hateful excesses. Nothing on here, in other words, sounds like Spandau Balle
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8.0
983
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
There's something thrilling about catching one of these autonomous auteurs while they're still so driven. Unlike so many players in his field, who settle for easy and disingenuous lo-fi, the skinny Croydonian reaches for grandeur
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8.0
986
8.0 |
Uncut
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8.0
988
8.0 |
The Guardian
Should we be impressed? All things considered - particularly his unerring melodic instincts, which make this an album of hit singles in waiting - we should
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8.0
990
8.0 |
musicOMH
Vincent Frank may look like a bit of an idiot - that hair, those achingly hip clothes, the startled rabbit-in-the-headlights pose - but he sure knows how to write a pop song.
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8.0
993
8.0 |
The Observer
Machine-tooled as it is, however, Frank's keening vocals proffer an aching humanity that the Little Boots and La Rouxs of this world would do well to learn from
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6.0
994
6.0 |
The Scotsman
The moments when he obeys the speed limit and steers towards the middle of the road (Your Boy, the title track) are less arresting. On the whole, though, the journey is unforgettably hair-raising
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6.0
991
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Complete Me is not especially audacious or idiosyncratic but the lyrics are a cut above and Frank is not afraid to exercise his falsetto
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6.0
992
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
Reasons to love 22-year-old Vincent Frank are that this debut was recorded and produced in his bedroom in Croydon
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6.0
996
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Often it's a success: the strutting synth-pop of 3 Little Words is proof of his ear for a melody. Unfortunately, there are a few sandals-with-socks moments
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6.0
985
6.0 |
Q
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6.0
987
6.0 |
The List
A bit like Calvin Harris remixing Mika, with high-camp emotronica flourishes and over the top heartbreak lyrics, it’s slick disco painted in Global Hypercolor.
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6.0
981
6.0 |
The Irish Times
For all its energy and affability, however, there's a strange sort of emptiness that hampers Complete Me . Could it be that Frankmusik is just a little bit too round-edged?
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4.0
984
4.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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4.0
989
4.0 |
The Independent
The combination of falsetto vocal, piano, synth and strings brings to mind Sparks – though they would surely treat romantic disaster with greater wit than Frank manages here
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3.0
995
3.0 |
The Quietus
Re-heated synth-pop with a fashionable 80s sheen and sappy ballads
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2.0
999
2.0 |
Drowned In Sound
…is it simply the moment when the music industry’s demand for fashionable electro-pop stars finally outstripped the supply of talent? As with the truly serious cases of music torture, a silent protest is the best response
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2.0
997
2.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Frank’s swooping voice combined with sugary electronic production verges on cheesy Eighties karaoke rather than cutting-edge po
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1.0
998
1.0 |
NME
A black hole sucking all of pop's best inventions into a dark void
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