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nagode
QUOTE (tweed @ Feb 9 2010, 08:41 AM) *
QUOTE (stephen thomas erlewine @ Feb 9 2010, 05:59 AM) *
i want this fucker like last month.



otm...LEAK DAMN IT!!!

http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new_fr...you_112311.html
yeknom
what's the title of this album, so I can look for it.
nagode
QUOTE (yeknom @ Feb 9 2010, 09:39 AM) *
what's the title of this album, so I can look for it.


winter of mixed drinks
ClashMusic
I've got this album. Like some posters have said, it doesn't replicate the gnawing emotional pain but still has plenty of stunning songcraft.

Top notch indie folk. Didn't realise that the band had much of an American following?? Seems strange, they're originally from a small town in Scotland. Apparently some of the new album was written in a seaside cottage in Fife, using the house of The Pictish Trail - another great Scottish songwriter you might like.
yeknom
http://thepopcop.blogspot.com/2010/01/wint...e-play-one.html

song by song review here. I imagine this will be popping up everywhere any time now.
solace
QUOTE (ClashMusic @ Feb 9 2010, 09:45 AM) *
I've got this album. Like some posters have said, it doesn't replicate the gnawing emotional pain but still has plenty of stunning songcraft.

Top notch indie folk. Didn't realise that the band had much of an American following?? Seems strange, they're originally from a small town in Scotland. Apparently some of the new album was written in a seaside cottage in Fife, using the house of The Pictish Trail - another great Scottish songwriter you might like.

indie FOLK? uh... blink.gif
nagode
QUOTE (ClashMusic @ Feb 9 2010, 09:45 AM) *
I've got this album. Like some posters have said, it doesn't replicate the gnawing emotional pain but still has plenty of stunning songcraft.

Top notch indie folk. Didn't realise that the band had much of an American following?? Seems strange, they're originally from a small town in Scotland. Apparently some of the new album was written in a seaside cottage in Fife, using the house of The Pictish Trail - another great Scottish songwriter you might like.


so uh you gonna up it or what?
nagode
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl...nG=Search+Blogs

anyone want to search the first few sites that come up??? i cant im at work
lostbikes
Still looking for the leak. Until then, 30 sec previews of all songs here: http://ie.7digital.com/artists/frightened-...of-mixed-drinks
arkin
No luck yet?

I was told from their publicist I could get a stream the week of the album's release.

In other words, "fuck you."

So... yeah.
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weirdness:

http://thefrabbitmembersclub.ning.com/
HewlettsDaughter


listening to this right now....

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HewlettsDaughter


First song - Big sounding. Very big. I like it a lot.

Second song - It's good.


HewlettsDaughter

This album is not folky at all. It's big sounding. I really am liking it so far.


Like...yeah....

Good!


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?
HewlettsDaughter


If released as a single, 'Foot Shooter' is going to be fucking huge.

The song is absolutely gorgeous.


arkin
Do you have a promo? Or did it actually leak?
nagode
QUOTE (arkin @ Feb 12 2010, 07:08 PM) *
Do you have a promo? Or did it actually leak?

ANYONE!!!???
HewlettsDaughter

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C.I.
this is some bullshit.
HewlettsDaughter


you guys, it's not hard to get a stream of this album.

like, seriously....


HewlettsDaughter


just a suggestion, but you can all start looking maybe here...

http://www.insound.com/Frightened_Rabbit_T...ain/p/INS72092/


washing machine
Can anyone rip the stream of this?! I need me some FRabbbbbit, but I just made my second uni payment and I've got no money 'til next month. No preorderin' for me.
C.I.
ah, well, didn't even know about the stream action.
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now streaming for the first listen... so glad this thing is not folky and twee.
HewlettsDaughter

'The Loneliness and the Scream,' guys.




ClashMusic
Scott's written a nice track by track guide about this album. Read it here:

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/frighten...-track-by-track
swede
finally...

hxxp://www.sordomusic.com/db/download.php?album=43472
C.I.
just got a promo for this, but won't be able to listen til sometime tomorrow. I listened to "Things," though... I think I might have to adjust my critical lens for this one, because compared to the frabbit I know / love, it sounds way overproduced. But, we'll see how things play out.
nagode
QUOTE (blackswede @ Feb 17 2010, 07:27 PM) *
finally...

hxxp://www.sordomusic.com/db/download.php?album=43472


geesh....about time!
nagode
QUOTE (C.I. @ Feb 17 2010, 07:52 PM) *
just got a promo for this, but won't be able to listen til sometime tomorrow. I listened to "Things," though... I think I might have to adjust my critical lens for this one, because compared to the frabbit I know / love, it sounds way overproduced. But, we'll see how things play out.


agreed...scotts always been dissapointed with how previous albums have turned out and i fear they may have tried to do to much with this one...

doesnt mean the songs wont kill live though
nagode
QUOTE (Hewletts Daughter @ Feb 16 2010, 09:32 PM) *
'The Loneliness and the Scream,' guys.


this song is gonna slay live!
tutpsu
I think they went a little too big on this one. Still letting it all sink in.
nagode
QUOTE (tutpsu @ Feb 17 2010, 08:45 PM) *
I think they went a little too big on this one. Still letting it all sink in.


yeah after the first listen i have to agree - a bit too grand and clean...the songs are definitely there and will be great live

initial impressions are 7.5/10
swede

QUOTE (tutpsu @ Feb 17 2010, 08:45 PM) *
...the songs are definitely there and will be great live

swede
did that wrong..meant this:

QUOTE (nagode @ Feb 17 2010, 09:53 PM) *
...the songs are definitely there and will be great live

nagode
QUOTE (blackswede @ Feb 17 2010, 09:00 PM) *
did that wrong..meant this:

QUOTE (nagode @ Feb 17 2010, 09:53 PM) *
...the songs are definitely there and will be great live



i was gonna say! wink.gif
gibbs
welp, it leaked
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QUOTE (ClashMusic @ Feb 17 2010, 09:40 AM) *
Scott's written a nice track by track guide about this album. Read it here:

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/frighten...-track-by-track

funny stuff
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'The Winter Of Mixed Drinks' Track by Track

1. Things
When the mind starts to become messy and cluttered, one of the first courses of action is to chuck all your shit out and start again. I’ve always gathered bits and pieces of paper and random items, and sometimes you sit and look at the stuff and ask: what’s the point of it? In the end, there’s not much you actually need. When you’re dead, your stuff gets put in boxes and bags and most of it’s probably thrown in a large bin. It’s only the bits you can’t put in plastic bags that remain, and those are the things that matter.

2. Swim Until You Can't See Land
It’s important to test yourself every so often, just to see what you’re made of, and it needn’t be a grand leap into the wilderness. Maybe you just try sweetcorn for the first time. That’s a start. Maybe you walk over the brow of that hill, just to see what’s there. There’s probably a Greggs.

3. The Loneliness And The Scream
I’m probably least likely to feel lonely when I’m by myself. I quite enjoy my own company and I tell the occasional decent joke… Ha. But there’s nothing quite like the loneliness you feel in a roomful of people when you don’t want to be there. You want to just fuck off, but you can’t. You want everyone else to just fuck off, but they won’t. You want to scream ‘CHOPPED UP TITS AND COCKS’, but you can’t, and that’s a shame.

4. The Wrestle
The night barrels on, and you don’t know what on earth is happening around you anymore. So you take your clothes off and wait for the morning to come so you can put them back on and go home. When you pull your jeans up, you notice your legs are bruised, so you vow not to take them off again ‘til the bruises are gone. Look! Songs Of Praise is on the telly. I always wondered what happened to Diane-Louise Jordan.

5. Skip The Youth
Being young is so tiring. There’s all this stuff to do and you have no excuse not to do it. The only reason I would ever get a pet is to use it to as an excuse not to go out of the house. Perhaps I could just go one step further and make up a pet. That would be a great excuse to never have anyone over to the house.

6. Nothing Like You
Old habits die hard. Other things which die hard include: ants, Aga stoves, Volvos, Bruce Willis and people who are already dead.

7. Man/Bag Of Sand
There’s an amazing butcher’s shop in Crail. JB Penman’s sells the best bacon I’ve ever eaten and I definitely had some of it on the go when I was recording this number. The rind just melts in the mouth and to be honest, sticking it in between two bits of bread doesn’t do it justice. I always have a rasher of Penman’s bacon sandwiched between two bits of Penman’s bacon. Un-fucking-believable.

8. Footshooter
I’ve been a right prick to quite a few people. I’m not stating that with any sense of pride or even a wry smile. It’s not very nice. Sometimes, though, you can’t help it. Being rather lazy and somewhat shy of sober confrontations/personal apologies, I’d like this song to serve as a 4 minute ‘Sorry’ to any one I have either wittingly or unwittingly offended. So, are we cool? Cool.

9. Not Miserable
I can’t listen to this one anymore. It seemed to take aaages to do in the studio. I’ve never had a headache that felt like an embryo was growing at the core of my brain. The road to completing this number was peppered with intense bursts of such mind-pain. Don’t expect to hear it live. Ever.

10. Living In Colour
The best thing about the 1950s was the invention of colour. Shame its been abused ever since by the likes of The Monkees, children’s toy manufacturers and Florence Welch. There’s so much colour out there in the world that my eyes often can’t cope, so they have a screaming breakdown and eventually mix them all together to make brown. The only respite comes in the form of the muted and charming palette used in Hollyoaks. 18:30–19:30 weeknights, I love you.

11. Yes I Would
First ever Frightened Rabbit song with saxophone on it, and I hope not the last. It’s actually got two on it. A medium sized one and a tiny one. There was a conscious effort to eschew the song structure we have employed so often on the last two records – the build and build and build – and that method extends to the album as a whole. I like that the record kind of waves you goodbye with this song, rather than kicking you in the teeth and walking away.
HewlettsDaughter


QUOTE (Hewletts Daughter @ Feb 16 2010, 09:32 PM) *
'The Loneliness and the Scream,' guys.



I wasn't fucking around with this song, guys. It destroys.


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destroys is a bit much, no?
HewlettsDaughter


nah I don't think so.

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song is pretty much one chord the whole time

i like Skip The Youth
HewlettsDaughter


yeah, but it's all about the build in to the backing vocals at the end.

just wait. you'll come around..



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don't patronize
arkin
I like this a lot on first listen. Production doesn't really seem that much more polished than TMOF. Anyhoo, solid set of songs here.
stephen thomas erlewine
QUOTE (arkin @ Feb 18 2010, 01:24 AM) *
I like this a lot on first listen. Production doesn't really seem that much more polished than TMOF. Anyhoo, solid set of songs here.


yep. listened to it twice, neither time with necessary attention. hooks are bigger than ever, but i can't yet tell if the lyrics are here or not. it's obviously a really good album, and i don't think the production detracts at all from the experience. i just hope that it ultimately will connect as directly as mof. that one took me a while to appreciate as well, so i'm not sweating it.
loanstereo
I put this up on ysi - faster dl.
hxxps://xxx.yousendit.com/download/RmNENnFFNkd1YlBIRGc9PQ

i really like it so far - good to hear something fresh from them.
AND they're coming to the the metro in may.
chiefstutter
QUOTE (loanstereo @ Feb 18 2010, 11:04 AM) *
I put this up on ysi - faster dl.
hxxps://xxx.yousendit.com/download/RmNENnFFNkd1YlBIRGc9PQ

i really like it so far - good to hear something fresh from them.
AND they're coming to the the metro in may.

Thanks for the link. I didn't want to spend my day looking for an active link - downloading now.
psdcfc
Does this record sound too Studio or Polished? I was kind of afraid of this.
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