Frightened Rabbit (facebook/twitter) have been consistently on playlists around Walrus Towers since I first fell in love with Keep Yourself Warm. The Scots have been off touring the US for the past few months and have been selling A Frightened Rabbit EP at their live shows – but it is finally getting a proper release at the end of the month on a very limited 500 print-run. Lucky then that you can pick it up digitally for free right now.
Scottish Winds opens the EP reminds you of why you loved the band from day one, with a bass-heavy guitar wrangling around Scott Hutchison’s accented vocals. Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell is brought in to add her sullen vocals to site softly above a military marching-drum rhythm and horns on Fuck This Place. Then on The Work, fellow Scot Archie Fisher is brought in for one-two harmonies in the following the traditional folk tradition.
It is an EP of bleak Scottish beauty.
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Scottish Winds by Frightened Rabbit
Fuck This Place by Frightened Rabbit
The Work by Frightened Rabbit
