Top of the World

Illuminate

Hung Up

Stranger/Visitor

Stranger

Inhuman

Burn All The Time Machines

Treat Me Right

Inevitable (Kiss Me Right Now Demo)

I Hate Cardio

Deep Is The Way

Deep Is The Way (feat. Bill Callahan)

mistakes (feat. Half Wolf)

Token of Your Purpose

Produced by The Manatees and Dom Mitchison.
Mixed by Dom Mitchison.

Dream in Colour

Track Nine

She could have told me
To act my age
She could have said
It’s time to behave
She could have said
A thousands things
But here’s the thing
She didn’t say a word
She just smiled
And acted as if 
She hadn’t heard
What I said
You know about
I might as well be dead
She just went about
What she had to do
But then stopped and said
Whatever happens
Is entirely up to you
I’ll clean up your mess
I’ll hang around
If you feel the need
To confess
I can be any number of things
But one thing I won’t 
Is stand here and listen
To you sing
The poor me blues
You have to understand
I was the guy that always got
Whatever he felt was his due
No one ever said anything to me
Unless it was for me to be
The rodeo star
The guy that was going far
Hell I could have been
A rock star
If I knew how to play guitar
But she didn’t care about that
If you don’t get up
You’re going to get fat
And nobody wants to see that
A washed up star
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Poor Me Blues

Since emerging in 2014 with their debut album This Is How I Let You Down, The Franklin Electric (TFE) have logged over 400 shows, canvassing the world alongside artists such as Mumford & Sons,  Ben Howard, Half Moon Run and City and Colour before headlining their very own tours around the world. Along the way, their 2017 album Blue Ceilings marked a major milestone, leading to a nomination at the 2018 JUNO® awards in the category of “Breakthrough Group of the Year''. Building on this momentum, TFE released their full-length LP  In Your Head / In Your Heart in 2020, accumulating over 4 million streams of the title track In Your Heart alone. The group then released the EP  Never Look Back, and full-length album This Time I See It in 2021. 2022 began with a steady release of five singles: Borderline, Answers, Rabbit Hole, Lesser Of The Worst, A Token Of Your Purpose. Led by the heartfelt folk anthem Answers, the group saw monthly listeners triple in the last 6 months. This release cycle helped refresh the group’s success in their backyard of Quebec, while broadening their reach internationally. 
On the next single Call Me, Jon feels at home, finding his way back to an extremely open and vulnerable place with acoustic-based instrumentation and raw, honest lyrics. The song was written in a small coastal town in Nayarit, Mexico, as a live improv jam recorded on his phone, and then produced at his home studio just outside Montreal. 
Jon states “ It felt easy and honest.” He goes on to say,  “ I feel I've reached the point that I can now make the music I want to make freely and say the things that are closest to me. Call Me is about the ideas we've created about ourselves or others have created about us. I've seen many versions of myself come and go and I'm now able to let go and share them as if it was just another story.”
The single is accompanied by a breathtaking music video filmed while Jon was traveling around Portugal. The video captures gentle moments of a mother's love, portraits of local fishermen and lifestyles, and sceneries of Portuguese coastlines. 
Franklin is poised for the next chapter with a full length album set to release this year. Tour dates to be announced in the coming weeks.

Token of Your Purpose

The Franklin Electric

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