The Winter Of Mixed Drinks landed on our anticipated list because its predecessor The Midnight Organ Fight was aces, and because “Swim Until You Can’t See Land,” the lead single from its follow-up, captured Frightened Rabbit in an elevated state of play, intimate and massive at once, possibly their finest four-minutes yet. “Nothing Like You” keeps the bar high, less college-rocked in its studio form than when the band debuted it during their BBC6 live session, but still a kinetic dose of the band’s increasingly refined brand of upbeat and hooky, doe-eyed melodrama. Like “Swim,” it features a string arrangement from labelmate Hauschka, who’s looking more and more like their lucky Rabbit’s foot — two-for-two on the contributions. The “Nothing Like You” single comes with the non-album b-side lament “Learned Your Name”: slow, sad, and simple, but still lovely enough to be a proper album track in most others’ hands. That fact + “Swim” + “Nothing” = more Mixed Drinks now, please.
“Nothing Like You”
“Learned Your Name”
(Thanks for the heads up, Jawbone)
The Winter Of Mixed-Drinks is out 3/10 via FatCat.
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We are like giddy schoolgirls Amrit! I literally can’t wait for March.
I am so excited for this album! Midnight Organ Fight is one of my favorite albums in a while, and this one is shaping up to be the same. Hopefully I can catch them on tour this time too. Last time they toured near me, they played at a 21+ club, a month before my 21st birthday… It sucked so much.
Nothing brightens this cold winter day in Canada like news of sparkly-new Frightened Rabbit songs (not to mention streaming of such songs) and the anticipation of the new record.
I’m also a big fan of these guys! hopefully they come to Alberta!
“The Midnight Organ Fight” = best album of the 2000s?
Very possibly.
Stoked for this new one.
Can I recommend a band for you guys if you like Frightened Rabbit you should check out a band called Meursault.
http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701
Truly fantastic, and did a session with Frabbit not long ago.
sounds more pop. I wish they wouldn’t
seriously? more pop? what about the twist? good arms? old old fashioned? be less rude?
oh and jawbone, yes to mersault.
is it mar. 10 yet?
I literally can wait, because if I couldn’t that would be impossible. But still, equally excited!
Awesome, can’t wait til the new album’s out. Also yes yes yes yes yes to meursault, their album dropped in 2008 I think? One of the best albums of the past few years and definitely one of the best Scottish albums of recent times. Frabbit are still kings though