| The Winter of Mixed Drinks |  | Artist: Frightened Rabbit
Label: Fat Cat Records
Category: Digital Music Album
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 983
Genre: alternative-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 2956 Minutes
Release Date: March 9, 2010
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 Great June 19, 2010
Rachel Smith
Love his voice and the lyrics are imaginative. The songs do tend to get repetitive, but I still am glad to own this CD
 The Vinyl Option May 19, 2010
Lennon2600
I got the vinyl edition. And it's great. Sounds great. Looks great. The case displays the album art pretty wonderfully. It opens long-wise with the bottom half of the inside of the case displaying the lyrics. It was shipped UPS ground over the course of five days. The album itself was cased in cardboard purpose-built for the job, and that cardboard case was shipped snug along with air packs inside of another cardboard box. Overall, quite secure.
If that wasn't enough, the publisher or an affiliate of the publisher provided a slip of paper with a code printed on it. The code grants you 320kbps-quality MP3 downloads, free of charge. So you don't even have to USB transfer the vinyl if you intended to do so for safe keeping or for portability. It's done for you.
Does not disappoint March 26, 2010
Amir Aslani (Seattle, WA)
As is always the case with releases that follow albums that I love, I was extremely worried that "The Winter of Mixed Drinks" would be a let down from "The Midnight Organ Fire". Usually this fear is realized in a substandard album. Fortunately, this is not the case with The Winter Of Mixed Drinks. Frightened Rabbit have created a rare thing, an uplifting, melancholy album. The music sort of celebrates the beauty in the suffering parts of life. The album builds off of The Midnight Organ Fire and is almost a response to it. Sure life has its misery, but that's okay, because it's part of what makes life great and beautiful. Maybe I'm reading into the music too much, but when listening to the tracks I hear optimism, making this album wonderful to listen to.
Favorite tracks:
1. Swim Until You Can't See Land
2. Living in Colour
3. The Lonliness and the Scream.
4. Things
Really, they're all great, especially as a whole.
Improving and increasing polish with every release March 11, 2010
Jeff Loudon (Nashville, TN)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Frightened Rabbit began in 2003 when Scott Hutchinson started performing using the alias. The following year, Scott teamed up with his brother, Grant, in Glasgow, Scotland. The duo gained a great deal of local popularity before Billy Kennedy joined the band in 2006.
The same year, they released their debut album, Sing the Greys, under their own label, Hits the Fan Records. After numerous positive reviews, Univeral picked up the record for release in both the U.K. and the U.S. Their popularity grew substantially after their sophomore album, The Midnight Organ Flight, hit the shelves in April of 2008 with new member Andy Monaghan on keys and now, two years later, Frightened Rabbit is back with their highly anticipated third album.
Fans of Frightened Rabbit's earlier work will instantly notice the increased polish applied to every track on the album. Where The Midnight Organ Fight excelled in presenting a live feel while still maintaining the clarity of studio recordings, The Winter of Mixed Drinks is mastered to a perfect shine with more reverb and delay added to the mix to perhaps simulate the slightly distant listener feel of their previous two records.
With a sound a bit like Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows singing for Arcade Fire, Frightened Rabbit have released a collection of radio-worthy tunes that are sure to increase their fan base exponentially. There's less direction on the album as a whole compared to their earlier work, but the songs flow well from track to track and each song has an equally catchy hook. The first single, "Swim Until You Can't See Land" is the perfect introduction for listeners new to the band, but there are plenty of other brilliant tracks left as rewards for new and longtime fans alike.
Although The Midnight Organ Fight is considered by most to be Frightened Rabbit's breakout record, I believe the band will see much greater results with this release. Easily one of the best releases of 2010 so far, the additional instrumentation added to the background along with enhanced recording techniques may turn some of their original fans off, but the end result will prove very successful as it has for many bands before them. I would highly recommend all new listeners start here and work their way backwards.
Similar Artists: The Shins, Arcade Fire
Track Suggestion: "Foot Shooter"
Completely Enveloping March 11, 2010
Eugene J. Gemperline (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I discovered the FRabbits last year, with "The Midnight Organ Fight", which I listened to incessantly. It was one of a select few albums (along with Arcade Fire's "Funeral," and The Nationals "Alligator") that I had on a seemingly endless repeat.
"The Winter of Mixed Drinks" is not as good. But that's no matter. It's an excellent album in and of itself, decidedly more accessible and lush than it's more spontaneous, gut-wrenching predecessor. More optimistic, with a real focus on complex instrumental arrangements. Still, it's the songwriting that stands out. Here are some cathartic melodies that will haunt you at the same time they bring you to your feet in joy. Am I exaggerating?
I saw these guys last summer do a Pitchfork after-show. I say that now so that I can say it in five years, when these guys are as big as (forgive the comparison) Coldplay. Again, do I exaggerate?
If you like music, you owe yourself a listen. If not, to hell with you.
Choice tracks include the "Swim Until You Can't See Land," "Skip The Youth," "Foot Shooter" and "Living In Colour."
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