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| Pitchfork |
 Though it has only been two years since Frightened Rabbit released their breakout sophomore album, Midnight Organ Fight, a lot has changed. The Scottish group began as a trio featuring brothers Scott and Grant Hutchison and their friend Billy Kennedy, but they blossomed into a quartet during their last tour and are now a five-piece with the addition of Make Model's Gordon Skene. The band's sound has also expanded. Having made a name for themselves with raw, confessional folk-rock driven by urgent guitar interplay and brutal percussion, Frightened Rabbit have left behind their folky beginnings and given in to their loudest, most blustery impulses for their third full-length.The Winter of Mixed Drinks is definitely more sophisticated than its predecessors. From the reverberating electronic buzz that swathes album opener "Things" to the spoken-word samples that lie underneath the droning "Man/Bag of Sand", Frightened Rabbit have muddled their simple melodies with arty effects, washes of shoegaze guitars, and baroque orchestrations. Tunes meander instead of galloping ahead toward a climactic chorus. Many songs are obsessed with oceanic motifs-- starting with the escapist maritime metaphors of the shuffling single "Swim Until You Can't See Land" and continuing through the sailing and floating imagery of the stomping "Living in Colour"-- and the album is likewise murky and vast. The Hutchison brothers still write rousing anthems, but the slickness of their production or the tarting-up of their simple setup makes them sound a little more like other bombastic bands from the British Isles (like Muse) and a little less like the band that made those first two albums....full text |
| Bbc |
| It’s been three years since Frightened Rabbit released their last record, The Midnight Organ Fight, a startling, brittle and quite brilliant break-up record that bared the rather bruised soul of the band’s principal boy Scott Hutchison. It was at times a painful, funny, heart-lurching record that, as it drew to a close, seemed to promise sweeter times to come. In its successor, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, we find Hutchison has been true to his word. From the off the record strikes a brighter beat – its opener, Things, telling of abrupt new starts, abandoning worldly possessions and fleeing for the hills: “I left them on the floor,” he explains as the music surges, “and ran for dear life through the door.”...full text |
| Thevinylvillain |
| The long-awaited new LP by Frightened Rabbit is available in stores and on-line as of today. Entitled The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, it is the band's third studio album following on from The Greys in 2006 and The Midnight Organ Fight in 2008. It comes at a time when Frightened Rabbit are getting far more media attention than at any other point in their career. No longer are they merely a staple of the blogs with the occasional feature in the music press - nowadays they're just as likely to get mentions in the red-top tabloids (thankfully, it's just been in respect of the music and not as a result of any untoward shenanigans by the boys) while many of the UK broadsheets are falling over themselves to get interviews. Just the other week, they were the cover stars of the Saturday Magazine that comes with The Herald, Scotland's most popular paper of the that type. Click here for the full article. Seeing as the band can no longer be regarded as a great secret, and also the fact that the new LP has tunes which will inevitably appeal more to the masses than any of their previous work, this is as convenient a time for many of the music snobs - of which I am never afraid to admit I am one - to get all sniffy and dismissive....full text |
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