WONDERFUL YOU
Aching and edgy, ‘Wonderful You’ throws shade at the heart as it slowly breaks. Frank Joshua’s traditional Dream Pop sensibilities are still present, and the skiffle backbeat still moves us along beautifully. But this is a pain. Smarting, tender, pain. When the crack of the permafrost signals the start of the middle eight, we all know that emptiness. And Joshua seems to know what he’s doing as he thrusts his ice pick deep into the wound. His 26th release, since Dec 2020, Frank maintains the quality we’ve come to expect from this “remarkable London-based singer-songwriter.”
