Frightened Rabbit, in the headlights? No chance, this is a band in their maturing prime. A five-piece hailing from Selkirk, and based in Glasgow, Frightened Rabbit are on the rise. If the songs on the last album, 2010’s ‘The Winter Of Mixed Drinks’, was enough to fill a concert hall then, the songs on Pedestrian Verse could fill arenas.
Songwriter and frontman Scott Hutchison may not have stretched the sound in any different direction from the last album but, really that is of little consequence when, the music is so powerfully delivered. Anthems and ballads rest easily side by side.
Frightened Rabbit is comprised of the aforementioned Scott Hutchinson on vocals, Grant Hutchison (brother) on drums, Billy Kennedy and Andy Monaghan on guitars and bass and Gordon Skene on guitars and keyboard.
Fifteen songs on the deluxe version, twelve on the standard CD, It is definitely worth the extra couple of quid for the extra songs
Admiral Fallow and Broken Records I am sure have been influenced by Frightened Rabbit, now on major label Atlantic Records, for this album and celebrating ten years of existence. They sit easily alongside peers, Mumford & Sons, Stornaway and British Sea Power.
Whether they will ever feel as happy as Elbow, who knows but perhaps, a Mercury Award would help those arena filling ambitions.
A UK Tour (dates below) starts this week.
Pete
10/11
1. Acts Of Man
2. Backyard Skulls
3. Holy
4. The Woodpile
5. Late March, Death March
6. December's Traditions
7. Housing (In)
8. Dead Now
9. State Hospital
10. Nitrous Gas
11. Housing (Out)
12. The Oil Slick
13. If You Were Me
14. Snow Still Melting
15. Escape Route
Frightened Rabbit + Wintersleep
Mon 11th Feb Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth
Tue 12th Feb Concorde 2 Brighton
Wed 13th Feb The Forum London
Thu 14th Feb The Junction Cambridge
Sat 16th Feb The Fleece Bristol
Sun 17th Feb Phoenix Exeter
Mon 18th Feb The Sugarmill Stoke-on-Trent
Wed 20th Feb Metropolitan Uni Leeds
Thu 21st Feb The Rescue Rooms Nottingham
Fri 22nd Feb Gorilla Manchester
Sat 23rd Feb O2 Academy Liverpool
Mon 25th Feb The Sage Gateshead
Tue 26th Feb The Picture House Edinburgh
Wed 27th Feb Music Hall Aberdeen
Thu 28th Feb Barrowlands Glasgow
