Frank

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The album has sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom and has been certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 78, based on 11 reviews. Soon after, she began working for a living, including, at one time, as an entertainment journalist for the World Entertainment News Network, in addition to singing with local group the Bolsha Band. I've this 2019 release and it sounds very compressed, the voice is sometimes "out of center"; there're few pops here and there, not satisfied about the overall quality of this pressing!

Amy Winehouse – Frank (2019, Vinyl) - Discogs

Beese told HitQuarters that he felt the reason behind the excitement, over an artist who was an atypical pop star for the time, was due to a backlash against reality TV music shows, which included audiences starved for fresh, genuine young talent. Half Speed Mastering is an artisan technique offered by Abbey Road Studios that results in the very highest quality sound reproduction. Elsewhere, the album charted inside the top five in Austria and Poland, and the top 10 in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands and Portugal. Robert Christgau, writing for MSN Music, was less enthusiastic and graded the album a "dud", [28] indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought.Its title alludes to the nature and tone of Winehouse’s lyrics on the album, as well as one of her influences, Frank Sinatra. Frank debuted at number 61 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, selling 22,000 copies in its opening week. In 2007 the album was released once again to Australia in March and the United States in November, with the latter being released via Universal Republic Records.

Amy Winehouse – Frank (2011, 180g, Vinyl) - Discogs

Frank also earned Amy Winehouse several accolades, including BRIT Award and Mercury Music Prize nominations and an Ivor Novello Award for the single “Stronger Than Me”. Production for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 and was handled by Winehouse, Salaam Remi, Commissioner Gordon, Jimmy Hogarth and Matt Rowe.Probably the best pressing of any album I own, it sounds so good that I have begun to hunt down half speed masters of other albums that I own to see if they compare. A new, half-speed mastered vinyl edition of Amy Winehouse’s debut album, Frank, is set for release through UMC/Island Records on September 4.