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Frightened Rabbit - New Release
Indie | Friday 8th February 2013 | Thisbe
Nice to know that Scott Hutchison understands that bad language is universal. Like using schoolboy tactics for winning new friends, Pedestrian Verse has the code for naughty rebellion, blanketed in qualified indie folk/rock.
Frightened Rabbit’s latest album, released this week is tipped to be a big one, and it doesn’t fall short.
It’s Hutchison’s soft Scottish vocals that have always given this band their edge; crooning emotional turmoil with a few tender f-bombs - he could swear us to sleep with that delivery.
It comes as no surprise that they’ve come a long way since their 2006 debut Sings the Greys’ enthusiastically busy sound, and this latest record is definitely refined, epic even.
This time around you can all but close your eyes and feel the squelch of muddy boots, lighter in your hand, watching from a packed festival arena.
First track on the album, ‘Acts of Man’ begins; ‘I am that dickhead in the kitchen / giving wine to your best girls’ glass’.
Brutally honest and brilliantly tongue in-cheek, it sets the tone for the band’s familiar tell-it-like it is vulnerability that fans can expect from this record.
Act one digested, what’s up next certainly doesn’t disappoint. ‘Nitrous Gas’ and ‘The Woodpile’ are surely anthems-in-waiting, whilst ‘Dead Now’ crows in mimic to our own quarter-life crises.
Strangely, Frightened Rabbit have kept a relatively low ‘pedestrian’ (sorry) profile thus far, hovering the periphery of the mainstream just long enough to keep hipsters in bragging rights, but now it’s their time.
‘Backyard Skulls’ and ‘Housing’ mumble by without too much fuss but just when you’ve started concentrating on your deadline again they sock us another blinder.
Emotionally apocalyptic lyrics are delivered with the band’s Glaswegian upbeat resilience, confidently, yet remaining firmly down to earth.
Like sitting with your best mates in the pub, this album is an anthem to comfort the youth you're misspending.
Pedestrian Verse is set to be the band’s coming of age record, Frightened Rabbit have officially finished puberty; transformed from spotty teenagers into now...dare we say it, pretty eligible bachelors.
