
On 2008's The Midnight Organ Fight , Frightened Rabbit was brash and blunt. Frontman Scott Hutchison Scottish-ed forth his lyrics (there's no other way to say it, really), which themselves weren't particularly rays of sunshine. And, above all else, the music never got too out of control. You had your guitars, keyboards, drums, and vocals, and they were all laid out as bare as the frank lyricism. Well, that's not happening on The Winter of Mixed Drinks . Sometime in the past two years the band apparently discovered the studio, with all its bells [...]