Albums like Frightened Rabbit’s 2008 release The Midnight Organ Fight come along once in a blue moon, cutting like a knife and drawing more blood than you thought you contained. The problem arises when the band goes back to the drawing board, having perfected the craft of tapping into your innermost demons, because, inevitably, they will falter.
If The Midnight Organ Fight is a splendid Samurai sword, The Winter of Mixed Drinks is a wooden dagger. There is a lot of unrealized potential and you are left with something which doesn’t quite accomplish its purpose.
It is not a bad album by any stretch of the imagination, but if it had been released as the band’s debut, I doubt it would have generated half the amount of buzz as its predecessor. It is noticeably less heady than Midnight but ways away more advanced than Sing the Greys. It delivers like an elongated EP, song after song of musical sketches that don’t contain the same ground shifting gusts as the band’s brilliant sophomore release.
2.9/5
Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land [mp3]
1 comment:
I agree. There were parts of the last album I really enjoyed, but listening to this one, everything felt the same. I went and deleted it...
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