Comments on: Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:25:52 +0000

I appreciate I’m a little tardy but my two cents is as follows: ultimately, the problem is that it’s just a little too neat and I don’t seem able to turn the volume up high enough to roughen the edges. It sounds as though there is a truely great album inside but someone’s shut it up in a box and written ‘breakthough’ all over it.

It’s not awful but it’s not brilliant and if it weren’t for TMOF I’d be surprised if you’d have been quite so harsh.

But perhaps I just want to love it too much and my vision is a little clouded .

By: Rampant Chutney Consumerism

Rampant Chutney Consumerism — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:42 +0000

Cough

a lot of people on this here post have just made my shitlist (this is where i what L7 to start playing in the background)

If there is any normal everyday people out there reading this and you enjoyed the last Frabbit album then you’ll no doubt like this album, there is no great change.

deal with it!

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:46:08 +0000

At least they’re billing themselves as a Selkirk band these days, and not a Glasgow band. They’ve come to terms with their Borders’ upbringing – that’s real growth!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:20:35 +0000

This is actually their third – Sing the Greys, Midnight Organ Fight and then this.

Sing the Greys was messy, raw and absolutely brilliant, and I reckon if they get angry their fourth could be really good, like you say. I hope so anyway, because there’s lots and lots about the band that I really love.

By: sean mccann

sean mccann — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:39:03 +0000

I agree with a lot of what you have said here. The whole album reeks of a deliberate almost desperate need to produce something ‘anthemic’. I have no doubt that when I hear these songs played live I will absolutely love them, but I cannot shake the awful production from poisoning what I am hearing. There is nothing organic about anything on the album, it is all too deliberate.

It made me think about great second albums and they almost always work better because they are a response to the reaction of the first album. Most bands produce poor or ordinary second albums because they force the material rather than writing the songs naturally but with this the production is so over-cooked it is preposterous. What is with that kick drum sound? The choral backing vocals?

On the plus side I do think Scott’s voice sounds great, although I don’t like the overall sound, his singing has clearly improved a lot. I would just ignore this album and skip right to their angry, bitter third outing. How can it fail with the Frabbit backlash already in full swing???

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By: PHILLIP

PHILLIP — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:48:34 +0000

“Skip the Youth” sounds like Meatloaf.

By: Barry Long strum

Barry Long strum — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:28:02 +0000

I always thought frightend rabbit were shit

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:39:32 +0000

Dylan, don’t blame Matey for your incomprehension of girls and/or the Navy,

In fact, don’t blame Matey for anything.
Except fun bath times.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:07:01 +0000

Yeah, the girls’ Matey confused me, because at no point in the history of the Royal Navy has the uniform for female officers or ratings been pink.