Frightened Rabbit – 'Pedestrian Verse'
“ I’m here/Not heroic/But I try ”. It’s with those words – on ‘Acts Of Man’, the opening track from their fourth album and major-label debut – that Selkirk quintet Frightened Rabbit confront the folly of putting your faith in rock...
Frightened Rabbit - 'Woodpile'
Any song or musician that mentions food is automatically brilliant: ex-chef rapper Action Bronson; the Oasis song ‘Digsy’s Dinner’; that bit in ‘Niggas In Paris’ when Kanye goes “ fish fillet ” – all brilliant. So although it is to...
Frightened Rabbit - 'State Hospital'
Following 2010’s lacklustre third album ‘The Winter Of Mixed Drinks’ and 2011’s slightly better ‘A Frightened Rabbit’ EP, the ‘State Hospital’ EP is, thankfully, a return to the sort of form that once had singer Scott Hutchison...
Live Review: Rockness
There’s a surprising amount of belly laughs to be had at a music festival in the Highlands, but the biggest of the weekend comes when Australian comedian Ro Campbell describes his adopted home as “like Israel for the miserable”. And if...
Frightened Rabbit - 'The Winter Of Mixed...
Love is bullshit. So reckons Chuck Palahniuk , the man with the lump of coal for a heart. Once, it seemed that Scott Hutchison was the Fight Club author’s most fervent follower, but ‘The Winter Of Mixed Drinks’ paints a picture of a...
Frightened Rabbit
Let’s ignore the fact some X Factor inbred is guaranteed the Christmas Number One because they tragically lost their (for argument’s sake) dog to crack addiction and pop-mediocrity is all they have left to live for. Instead, let’s applaud...
