1. Album review
Since changing their name from the rather dull The Rileys in 2009, Turner has been on an upward curve. Tour supports with Marina
and the Diamonds and The Futureheads followed favourable (if mistaken) comparisons to Kings of Leon and My Morning Jacket, and
they’ve had a top five hit on the Billboard Alternative Chart with early single pretty dress.
Nearly a year after its UK release, their self-titled debut album finally appears in the UK and it’s… a little baffling, really. Much is made
of the band’s multicultural European backgrounds, but in truth Turner sound more like a big guitar rock band than that would suggest.
Coldplay is the obvious touchstone for many of the better tracks (airtight, Apartment, make believe, so soon), but not even those critics
who brand Chris Martin a "bedwetter" would lay the unfortunate generic blandness of Your Side and Garands at his sheet-soiled
bedside.
At their best, however, Turner evoke a band from much further back in Morrissey’s anointed list: James. Closing track Guns Out is as
anthemically danceable as Tim Booth’s Sit Down or She’s a Star, while the explosive Pretty dress and more sensitive 12 Fingers
share the same knack for shoehorning U2-sized themes into indie guitar tunes.
Too patchy to warrant genuflection just yet, thanks should nevertheless be given for the exquisite moments that Young the Giant serve
here. Given the opportunity to continue on the curve they’re currently ascending, however, we may yet all be bending a knee
alongside Morrissey.

2. £8.99 album price
Pretty dress
How can you smile, again?
After all he’s said and done
He punched your face and wiped your tears
He’s caged your heart for all these years
Now your chance has come
Grab your dreams and run
How can you wear that pretty dress?
That pretty dress
How can you paint your smile, but settle for so much less?
But I suppose you know him best
And even when you ask him why
He just cries and cannot say
Then there’ll be good times there’ll be great times
But you’re always scared of darker days
Verse
Bridge
Chorus
Verse

3. Now your glimpsed the sun
Grab your dreams and run
How can you wear that pretty dress?
That pretty dress
How can you paint your smile but settle for so much less?
How can you wear that pretty dress?
That pretty dress
How can you paint your smile but settle for so much less
Well I suppose you know him best
My life
Another morning, how bloody boring
Just sat at my desk
Don’t want the rest of your
Plan for glory, it’s just another story
I like what I see
And I like my
Life keeps alive while I fly a little high a little
Life keeps alive
While I’m waiting for you
I’m fat and lonely and you’re looking so homely
I’m hot in my head
But I’m crap in bed
And I’m getting high now I never ever lie down
I like what I see and I like my
Life keeps alive while I fly a little high a little
Life keeps alive while I’m waiting or you
My life
I’ll be waiting for you
Bridge
Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus

4. My life
Keeps alive while I fly a little high a little
Life keeps alive while I’m waiting for you
It’s my life
It’s my dreams
It’s my home that’s keeping my alive
It’s my life
It’s my dreams
It’s my home that’s keeping my alive
Turner so soon lyrics
Feeling, funny when the old man’s down
Leaves me reaching
Like discovering the world we’re living in round
Everyone’s satisfactory
Cause to action
Everything here damn fine
Everyone’s here’s sentimental
So soon
So soon
Drifting in and out in and out of life
Leaves me greasing the opportunities pass by
Everyone’s satisfactory everything’s here damn fine
Everything here’s alright
So soon
So soon
Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus

5. So soon
So soon
Grieving in and out in and out
Feeling opportunities pass by
Everyone’s satisfaction
All calls to action
Everyone’s damn fine
Everyone sentimental
Everyone’s alright
So soon
Verse