Few artists consistently deliver innovation on a track by track level the way Frank Joshua seems to do throughout. On “Seedy Grammar”, the London based artist returns or rather experiments with a sound that feels far more old-school in many ways. It’s got a funk to it, a grooviness that’s reminiscent of a Beach Boys record but with Joshua’s own unique spin to it.
As always, Joshua’s heavy vocals are loaded with as much gravitas and presence as they are just effortlessly cool swagger. The first track from Frank’s fourth album, Seedy Grammar sees Frank diving deep into two seemingly unrelated topics but drawing a strange relationship nonetheless — the erosion of grammatical adherence to a subsequent erosion of political standards.
Equipped with a grainy black and white video that incorporates the fall of the Berlin wall alongside clips of a band not so perfectly singing alongside it, it highlights that same message.
Cool, timely, and keenly political, Joshua is electrifying on this latest piece and his new album promises to be all that and more.