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- Summary: The third studio album for the Scottish indie band produced by Peter Katis is its first with new member Gordon Skene.
- Record Label: Fat Cat
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Well, the booze in my blood Runs fast and loud And my brain shouts down to my mouth Say whatever I think Say it at him And when the dam bursts... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 28
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Mixed: 6 out of 28
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Negative: 0 out of 28
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Frightened Rabbit is mostly content to continue exploring the vein it tapped a couple of years ago. Fans will need to be slightly more patient, but they’ll ultimately be well rewarded.
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The Rabbit are a band overdue a breakthrough, and fans of everyone from Arcade Fire to the similarly revamped Maccabees will find much to love here.
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MojoGenerous handclaps and a beautifully thrumming guitar buoy The Loneliness & The Scream. Living In Coulour, meanwhile, is a statement of intent, chiming pianos and a reeling rhythm pushing things along, typifying an album made by a band happily at the peak of its powers. [mar 2010, p.90]
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In the broader context of British alternative music, it cements Frightened Rabbit at the creative peak of the folk-crossover scene.
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Those mixed drinks, they can warm you up or weigh you down, as the snow piles up. On this album the band always goes for the former, and that warmth extends out to the listener.
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"Midnight Organ Fight" announced with its title that its underlying concern was sex (not getting it, not getting it from who you want, being unfulfilled by it), and the songs on this new album, though more lyrically complex, seem neutered by comparison.
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Under The RadarThe emotional immediacy of a jilted lover has been replaced with a series of tired metaphors, and as a result The Winter Of Mixed Drinks falls significantly short of its predecessor. [Winter 2010, p.82]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Jul 13, 2018
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Oct 3, 2010
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