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The Winter of Mixed Drinks by Frightened Rabbit (CD, 2010)

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Pod
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9332727016646
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050180734

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Artist
Frightened Rabbit
Format
CD
Release Year
2010
Release Title
The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Genre
Alternative, Rock

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Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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With each release, Frightened Rabbit's music grows by leaps and bounds: they offered humble, moody folk-pop on Sing the Greys, which they expanded into searching rock on Midnight Organ Fight. On The Winter of Mixed Drinks, they focus and polish Organ Fight's epics -- and add a healthy dose of optimism. Though they've always been concerned with heavy issues like life, death, freedom, devotion, and spirituality, this time the bandmembers don't seem beaten down by their struggles with them. Even when Scott Hutchison sings "Find God just to lose it again" on "The Loneliness and the Scream," there's a warmth in the music that makes him sound liberated instead of isolated. Indeed, liberation is a major theme on The Winter of Mixed Drinks, whether it's shedding a "mediocre past" on "Things" or losing one's self in the moment on the joyous "Swim Until You Can't See the Land." This hopeful streak puts Frightened Rabbit's anthems more in line with early U2 than with their friends and fellow Scotsmen the Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks -- and sweetly direct album closer "Yes I Would" steers refreshingly clear of Coldplay-esque platitudes. Yet not all of The Winter of Mixed Drinks is so straightforward: "The Wrestle"'s choral chanting and backwards samples add an ethereal touch to its full-throttle charge, and "Skip the Youth"'s refrain of "Skip the youth, it's aging me too much" shows the band can be playful while making a big statement. Frightened Rabbit deal mostly in grand gestures, but when they're as rousing as "Living in Colour" -- which features a gorgeous string arrangement by the band's FatCat labelmate Hauschka -- it hardly matters. The Winter of Mixed Drinks looks at life's ice and snow from the perspective of a dawning spring. ~ Heather Phares
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Spin (p.84) - "On the rousing 'Swim Until You Can't See Land,' the best song on this determinedly downcast Scottish quintet's third studio effort, singer Scott Hutchison tells of wading out to sea..." CMJ - "[I]t's the thrashing rhythms and throbbing bass lead of 'Skip The Youth' that adds an anthemic feel to the collection..." Billboard (p.32) - "Any listener who has experienced the emotions associated with a romantic split should appreciate the album." Paste (magazine) (p.56) - "Hutchison's earthy, inviting voice cuts through the vast instrumentation like a ray of sunlight." Pitchfork (Website) - "[W]ith arty effects, washes of shoegaze guitars, and baroque orchestrations. Tunes meander instead of galloping ahead toward a climactic chorus."

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