Frank Turner is set to release his forthcoming seventh studio album, Be More Kind, in May.

Inspired by a line from a Clive James poem: “I should have been more kind. It is my fate. To find this out, but find it out too late”, Be More Kind will be released on May 4th.

Frank says of the album:

A lot of older, wiser people tend to say things like that, that the things that come out in the wash at the end of a human life are the way you treated the people around you. In the modern world, that’s a lesson that all of us, myself included could do to learn.

Alongside the announcement he unveils 1933, the first track to emerge from the album.

Be More Kind due out May 4th via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records.

Tracklisting

Don’t Worry
1933
Little Changes
Be More Kind
Make America Great Again
Going Nowhere
Brave Face
There She Is
21st Century Survival Blues
Blackout
Common Ground
The Lifeboat
Get It Right

Frank will also be heading out on ‘Be More Kind’ tour in Spring this year.

April

13 – Manchester, Academy
15 – Dublin, The Academy
18 – Belfast, The Limelight
20 – Aberdeen, The Garage
21 – Edinburgh, Liquid Room
22 – Newcastle, O2 Academy
24 – Sheffield, O2 Academy
25 – Liverpool, O2 Academy
27 – Bristol, O2 Academy
28 – Exeter, Uni Great Hall
30 – Cambridge, Corn Exchange

May

01 – Southampton, Guildhall
02 – Southend Cliffs Pavilion
04 – Leicester, O2 Academy
05 – Oxford, O2 Academy
08 – Hull, City Hall
09 – Norwich, UEA