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

Frank Turner has shared brand new single, Little Changes, ahead of his album release on May 4th.

Little Changes was formed in part by his own experience of the positive impact of cognitive behavioural therapy. Frank explains:

It started out as a simple folk song about relationships, in particular drawing on my experiences with CBT therapy in the last couple of years – the idea of trying to make small, practical adjustments to your life, which can add up to something significant. Over time, the music grew in a really interesting, early 80s pop direction, and the metaphor of the lyric grew into something more expansive.

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 via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor.

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.

Turner is currently amidst the first leg of the ‘Be More Kind’ World Tour, which sees him playing 120 dates to over 200,000 people across the UK, the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He will head out on a new string of arena dates in the early 2019.

BE MORE KIND 2019 

January

22 – Birmingham Arena
25 – Manchester, Victoria Warehouse
27 – Leeds, First Direct Arena
29 – Glasgow, O2 Academy

February

01 – Bournemouth, Windsor Hall
02 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
03 – London, Alexandra Palace