Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land

Single Review by Ally Brown | 28 Oct 2009
Single title: Swim Until You Can't See Land
Artist: Frightened Rabbit
Label: Fat Cat
Release date: 16 Nov

 

Frightened Rabbit's success is based on nothing resembling modernity: ever since the first lovesick caveman grunted a tune, his descendants have been trying to marry clear storytelling with earnest convictions without tipping into mushy sentimentality. That's an easier balance to hold when girls aren't involved, so Swim's sexless metaphor about trying new things is delivered with a suitable level-headedness. Will Frightened Rabbit swim away from their comfort zone on album number three? Their breakthrough album was a break-up album; "Call this a drowning of the past," he sings here, "she is there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back." Let's hope he's not a specialist.

 

Playing Stirling Tolbooth on 28 Nov, Inverness Ironworks on 29 Nov, Aberdeen Moshulu on 1 Dec and Dundee Fat Sam's on 2 Dec.

http://www.myspace.com/frightenedrabbit