Painting of a Panic Attack by Frightened Rabbit

Painting of a Panic Attack, the fifth studio album by Scotland's Frightened Rabbit, came out on Atlantic Records on 8 April 2016, and it was pieced together across an ocean. Worn out by the long road behind Pedestrian Verse, Scott Hutchison had moved to Los Angeles and made a solo record as Owl John, while the rest of the band stayed in Glasgow; songs traveled between them by email until everyone regrouped in New York in the summer of 2015. Aaron Dessner of the National, whom they'd met opening for his band in 2013, produced, and Simon Liddell joined for good on guitar and keys after Gordon Skene's exit.

Dessner threads electronics through the band's big-hearted indie rock, and critics argued over how much it sounded like the National. Nobody argued about Hutchison, whose words and singing drew wide praise. It topped the Scottish chart. After his death in 2018 the others retired the name, leaving this as the last Frightened Rabbit album.

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