Frank Turner talks new single ‘Girl From The Record Shop’ and the importance of spaces to share music

nme.com:

Frank Turner has shared new single ‘Girl From The Record Shop’. Check it out below as Turner talks to NME about new album ‘Undefeated’ and his continuing endeavours with the Music Venue Trust.The energetic new track is the second single to be taken from ‘Undefeated’, which is due out on May 3 via Xtra Mile.

It also marks Turner’s first album as an independent artist, having spent the past 10 years on a major label, and the first record that he has produced himself.Turner described ‘Girl From The Record Shop’ as a “borderline fantasy type thing” from the point of view of his teenage self.“Record shops were hugely important to me as a kid, both as refuges but also as a place to discover music and to meet other people,” Turner told NME. “I made a lot of my friends at Selectadisc in Soho in the late ‘90s and early 2000s – even if I had no money, I would go in and listen to records all day and nerd out.

If there was a beautiful woman working in the record shop who was wearing a Riot Grrl t-shirt, then I’m completely fucked. What am I going to do?

Absolutely nothing – I didn’t talk to people that I fancied as a teenager.”He continued: “Both musically and lyrically, it’s got that sense of teenage romance.