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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. In Step | |||
| 2. Better Off As 2 | |||
| 3. Gotta Boyfriend? | |||
| 4. Confusion Girl | |||
| 5. Your Boy | |||
| 6. When You're Around | |||
| 7. 3 Little Words | |||
| 8. Wonder Woman | |||
| 9. Complete Me | |||
| 10. Vacant Heart | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Complete Me - Frankmusik 60 Minute Remix | |||
Product Description
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Complete Me marks the long-awaited long-playing debut from Frankmusik, aka Vincent Frank--a former BMX rider and student at the London School Of Fashion who packed in both to become a do-it-yourself pop star. Accordingly, this is a pop music several steps away from the current stage school/talent show consensus--still invested with big choruses and billowing synthesisers, but delivered with an oddball charisma and quirky intelligence. Described by Frank as "a break-up record written about one girl", Complete Me channels desire, loneliness and melancholy through a kaleidoscope of styles, from pristine pop--see early breakout track "Confusion Girl", here polished into a grand, strings-laden production redolent of Mika or the Pet Shop Boys--to glitched-up synth-pop ("Done Done", "3 Little Words") and mischievous mash-up ("When You’re Around", which pilfers the harpsichord line from The Stranglers’ "Golden Brown" and chops it up into stuttering new melodies). The climax, or at least a sense of closure, comes with "Vacant Heart"--an epic heartbreak number that blows up the emotions of a collapsing relationship into epic widescreen. -- Louis Pattison
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In 2009 Frankmusik is that rarest of pop prospects; one that has manufactured his own image and music. Complete Me is an auteur’s album, a break-up record written about one girl. While his contemporaries use one producer for one track, one writer for another and end up with a hotch-potch of borrowed sentiments and a patchwork of production sounds, Vincent Frank wrote and produced these tracks in his bedroom in Croydon. The album is an electronic love letter, the soundtrack to an eternal summer of adolescent heartache, equal parts light and dark. With a dozen remixes to his name for everyone from avant-garde Brooklyn act Telepathe to The Pet Shop Boys; Frank has also produced two tracks on the forthcoming album by No 1 grime pop star Tinchy Stryder, as well as his debut single "Better Off As Two" reaching the upper reaches of the charts.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a hugely enjoyable collection of songs that offers much variety within it's stuttering, jerky electronic template. Vincent Frank's love of 80s pop translates here into warm melodies ('Confusion Girl', '3 Little Words')and genuinely heartfelt ballads (the epic 'Your Boy'). Standout tracks are the propulsively uplifting 'Better Off As 2' and the oddly moving 'Done Done'. Sound effects that chop up the vocals or layer them on top of one another are used throughout but are used artistically to add impact. Co-producer Stuart Price has smoothed over the some of the rougher edges that were evident in the earlier versions of this otherwise self-written and self-produced debut album - but Vincent's personality remains stamped over every track. It's a great pop album that consistently delivers memorable hooks and a new perspective on what can be achieved by electronic pop.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Frankmusik (Vincent Frank by name, nee Turner apparently)
is with us at last. Teaser EPs and singles have been whetting
our appetites for some time now. "Better Off As Two" and
"Confusion Girl" both deserved more attention than they received.
It is the way of the world sometimes that the best of
the best have to wait for their moment in the sun.
If it's sunshine you're after then look no further.
This scintillating little piece of electro-pop perfection
has the sun bursting out of every musical pore.
You've probably gathered by now that I like it.
I like it a lot!
Although not without flaws (a bit of judicious pruning might
have said goodbye to the somewhat mediocre 'Wonder Woman',
'Time Will Tell' and the strangulated Stranglers recreation
'When You're Around') Frankmusik is still a very fine album.
Other than those two highly infectious singles 'In Step',
'Gotta Boyfriend', '3 Little Words' and 'Done Done' all romp
along merrily with strong melodies and memorable hooks.
Young Mr Frank has a lovely voice : warm and secure in the middle;
piercingly accurate in the upper reaches of his fearsome falsetto.
Gentler songs such as 'Your Boy' (the album's highlight)
and the curiously affecting 'Run Away From Trouble' bear
witness to his undoubtable song-writing talents.
Writer, performer, producer. All this AND perfect cheekbones!!
He's got the lot really and deserves to succeed.
Toto, Dorothy and all her friends will doubtless love him.
(The second bonus disc on the Deluxe Edition delivers
interesting reinterpretations of the same material for
those who would dare to dance).
A Cracking Debut!
Highly Recommended.
is with us at last. Teaser EPs and singles have been whetting
our appetites for some time now. "Better Off As Two" and
"Confusion Girl" both deserved more attention than they received.
It is the way of the world sometimes that the best of
the best have to wait for their moment in the sun.
If it's sunshine you're after then look no further.
This scintillating little piece of electro-pop perfection
has the sun bursting out of every musical pore.
You've probably gathered by now that I like it.
I like it a lot!
Although not without flaws (a bit of judicious pruning might
have said goodbye to the somewhat mediocre 'Wonder Woman',
'Time Will Tell' and the strangulated Stranglers recreation
'When You're Around') Frankmusik is still a very fine album.
Other than those two highly infectious singles 'In Step',
'Gotta Boyfriend', '3 Little Words' and 'Done Done' all romp
along merrily with strong melodies and memorable hooks.
Young Mr Frank has a lovely voice : warm and secure in the middle;
piercingly accurate in the upper reaches of his fearsome falsetto.
Gentler songs such as 'Your Boy' (the album's highlight)
and the curiously affecting 'Run Away From Trouble' bear
witness to his undoubtable song-writing talents.
Writer, performer, producer. All this AND perfect cheekbones!!
He's got the lot really and deserves to succeed.
Toto, Dorothy and all her friends will doubtless love him.
(The second bonus disc on the Deluxe Edition delivers
interesting reinterpretations of the same material for
those who would dare to dance).
A Cracking Debut!
Highly Recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By David Long
Format:Audio CD
My girlfriend has been going on about Frankmusik for a while but it wasn't until i heard his acoustic version of the Pet Shop boys "its a sin " on the Dermot Oleary show that I saw how much talent this guy has.
I then caught him live by chance at a Keane gig and I was blown away by his unique voice and the intensity of his performance.
I am into "classic" bands ranging from Radiohead and Kings of Leon to new acts such as Friendly Fires. Recently the new wave of electronic music has excited me but once you scratch beneath the surface there is little substance. However Frankmusik feels real - i have read that he writes and produces everything himself so that is probably why. There is real depth and honesty here.
It feels like finally Britiain has produced a truly eccentric male pop star , the likes of which we haven't seen since David Bowie and Bryan Ferry.
This should be the start of a long career!!
I then caught him live by chance at a Keane gig and I was blown away by his unique voice and the intensity of his performance.
I am into "classic" bands ranging from Radiohead and Kings of Leon to new acts such as Friendly Fires. Recently the new wave of electronic music has excited me but once you scratch beneath the surface there is little substance. However Frankmusik feels real - i have read that he writes and produces everything himself so that is probably why. There is real depth and honesty here.
It feels like finally Britiain has produced a truly eccentric male pop star , the likes of which we haven't seen since David Bowie and Bryan Ferry.
This should be the start of a long career!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Slight Genius
I first bought this album when it came out in 2009. It's mid-2013 now and i still find reason to play it. I think Vincent is/was always an independent label artist. Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. Lock
5.0 out of 5 stars
AMAZING!
I loved it!
Frankmusik as always making good music.
The songs and photos are amazing.
You have to buy this album.
Frankmusik as always making good music.
The songs and photos are amazing.
You have to buy this album.
Published 1 month ago by Bruno Fernandes
5.0 out of 5 stars
Complete Me (Deluxe Edition)
This whole album is really good fun, with a retro flair behind it! Frankmusik's writing and production is very interesting to listen to, although it does sometimes come off as a... Read more
Published 19 months ago by 01lander
2.0 out of 5 stars
Bargain Basement Musik
I got this Cd for really cheap, and this the best way to describe this music, cheap crappy pop. The songs are terrible and the music( if you can call it that) is poor, very poor. Read more
Published on 24 April 2011 by ekb
5.0 out of 5 stars
Complete Class
I tried this CD as Im always looking out for something new in music.
On first listening I found 3 or 4 tracks that were very infectious and got uder my skin straight... Read more
On first listening I found 3 or 4 tracks that were very infectious and got uder my skin straight... Read more
Published on 22 April 2010 by Stuart Taylor-Balls
5.0 out of 5 stars
It makes me happy
A friend had a track off this - When You're Around - which is quite possibly the happiest, catchiest song I've ever heard. Read more
Published on 15 April 2010 by Darren McCormac
4.0 out of 5 stars
Heartfelt quality electro-pop
This is one of several good electro-pop solo albums from 2009. It's heavily 80s influenced, and strictly song-driven rather than groove-driven- this isn't really dance music,... Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2009 by Mr. Stuart Bruce
3.0 out of 5 stars
DELUXE EDITION
Dont believe the hype this is a steady if unspectacular debut....But the remix disc in the DELUXE EDITION is very good indeed,more dancey and up tempo,there should have been more... Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2009 by Richard Hogg
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as i thought it would be
I liked a few releases so i bought the album, but was a little disappointed.
Published on 1 Oct 2009 by S. Whipp
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Lush Completeness of Frankmusik!
Yahoo Music's review for Frankmusik's Complete Me (Deluxe Edition) intrigued me so much that I went over to 7 Digital to listen to the previews. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2009 by D. Chandranayagam
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