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Apr 14, 2016This is still the Frightened Rabbit we all know and love, as gloomy as we last heard from them.
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Apr 4, 2016A combination of new life experiences, that allow Hutchison to weave more vivid tales of mourning, nostalgia and, ultimately, triumph, and the shot in the arm that is Aaron Dessner giving the band that little bit more has helped to create an album that could rival Midnight Organ Fight.
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Apr 22, 2016The scruffy Scots have taken a more polite approach with this one, but Hutchison’s ability to touch the listener’s nerves hasn’t suffered and the result is musically uplifting; a well-crafted testament to the band’s song-writing abilities.
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Apr 7, 2016Painting of a Panic Attack, like previous albums, can get a bit mired in wistful, midtempo soul searching, but it's by far the most immediate and inclusive collection of songs that the band has laid to tape to date.
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Apr 6, 2016It [Die Like A Rich Boy] is a poignant conclusion to what often feels like a cathartic record; one that will take you on a wonderful rollercoaster of emotional highs and lows.
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Apr 5, 2016It’s a wonderful record, one to wrestle with, one that lingers at odd moments of the day and night. Allow it to seek you out.
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MojoMar 29, 2016Painting Of A Panic Attack is easily FR's strongest album in years. [May 2016, p.89]
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Mar 29, 2016A record made up of excellent songs, with a few great ones chucked in to raise the bar.
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Apr 8, 2016A lonely and haunted record, Painting Of A Panic Attack doesn’t soar like much of Frightened Rabbit’s catalog, instead taking its time to explore the mind’s darker inner rooms.
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Apr 6, 2016Painting of a Panic Attack may sound bigger and thematically a little more mature, but any fans who were worried that happiness on the West Coast might change Hutchison’s relationship with his art can breathe a sigh of relief.
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Mar 29, 2016Painting Of a Panic Attack, while not their best release musically, may well be their most emotionally mature.
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May 4, 2016Painting of a Panic Attack is Frightened Rabbit dressed up as The National for Halloween. It’s a nice change, but still very much the band fans have come to love.
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Q MagazineMay 5, 2016Only Break's lapse into unreconstructed arena-rock strikes a jarring note. [Jul 2016, p.107]
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Apr 18, 2016It tempers Frightened Rabbit’s invigorating merriment in an attempt to turn them into an inoffensive, poker-faced troupe.
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Apr 11, 2016What’s missing from Panic is some kind of levity or the cutting humor that once personalized Hutchison’s self-loathing.
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Apr 8, 2016This still feels exactly like the record they had to make, and there are startlingly good stretches to be found, but there’s enough of a disconnect between the songs to make it a slightly jarring experience.
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Apr 7, 2016This album may declare itself a painting--and an intense one, at that--but there’s a much bigger picture to see here.
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UncutMar 29, 2016Produced by The National's Aaron Dessner, their fifth album inflates Selkirk's hand-knitted Coldplay to vast proportions. [May 2016, p.73]
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Apr 12, 2016Alas, it is disappointing to opine that on Frightened Rabbit's fifth release, Painting of a Panic Attack, the incorporation of frontman Scott Hutchison's verses of cagey lament and realization into Dessner's poignant pop arrangements feels contrived rather than meant to be.
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Sep 30, 2016Less swelling, more sand pits, the moments of crescendo here are few and far between.
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