Pedestrian Verse by Frightened Rabbit

Pedestrian Verse, Frightened Rabbit's fourth album, arrived on 4 February 2013 as the Glasgow-based Scots' first full-length for Atlantic, and it climbed to number nine on the UK Albums Chart. Leo Abrahams produced it with the band, and for once this wasn't just Scott Hutchison's show: every member brought more songs to the table, and guitarist and keyboardist Gordon Skene made the only studio album of his stint before leaving once the tour wrapped.

A break-up fed some of the writing, which suits a band that always sounded best with its heart torn open. Grant Hutchison's drums drive the big, bruised choruses, while Billy Kennedy and Andy Monaghan stack guitars into something that swells toward arena size without losing the intimacy of a band that started out in Selkirk. "The Woodpile" is the song that has hung on longest in the countdowns.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.