The Winter of Mixed Drinks by Frightened Rabbit

The Winter of Mixed Drinks, Frightened Rabbit's third album, came out on FatCat on 1 March 2010, with Peter Katis, who had recorded and produced The Midnight Organ Fight, back at the controls. Scott Hutchison called it more of a storytelling record than the first two: a half-invented tale of someone running away from everything, maybe cracking up a little on the way, rather than a page torn out of his own diary.

The Selkirk band, now based in Glasgow, had filled out around Scott and his brother Grant on drums, with Billy Kennedy, Andy Monaghan and new guitarist Gordon Skene, and the sound swells to match: stacked guitars, pounding drums and choruses built to be bellowed back. "Swim Until You Can't See Land" led the way in November 2009, followed by "Nothing Like You", "Living in Colour", which gave the album its title, and "The Loneliness and the Scream".

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