With his full-length debut, You’re No Island, Andrew Daly Frank offers a moody and transportive set. Carried by Frank’s distinctly supple voice, the album highlights the Pittsburgh, PA-based singer-songwriter’s knack for crafting low-key yet engaging tunes, his mixes shimmering like still-wet watercolors glistening in autumn light.
Island, like his 2020 EP, Relier, certainly effuses melancholia, though Frank’s current lyrics are often encouraging, pointing to the way we’re all connected. Opener “Alone in the Frame” builds on John Donne’s no-man-is-an-island motif, Frank addressing how we resist this fundamental truth (“The sky turned to red / And I buried my head”), even as we eventually reach an understanding (“No one’s alone in a game”).
