Blog: PopMatters

Those mixed drinks can warm you up or weigh you down as the snow piles up. The band always goes for the former, and that warmth extends out to the listener. What a red herring "The Greys" turned out to be. The first track on Frightened Rabbit's debut album back in 2006 was all angular guitars and tense energy. It may have set up the tight but disconnected album that followed, but it gave us no indication of where this great Scottish band was going. Their second disc The Midnight Organ Fight melted down the icy edges of its [...]