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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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Positive: 20 out of 25
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