“I Wish I Was Sober” by Frightened Rabbit

"I Wish I Was Sober" comes from Painting of a Panic Attack, the fifth and, as it turned out, final album by Scottish indie rockers Frightened Rabbit, released on Atlantic in April 2016. It was made at a distance: frazzled after touring Pedestrian Verse, with Scott Hutchison in Los Angeles and the rest of the band in Glasgow, they swapped songs by email before regrouping in New York in the summer of 2015.

Aaron Dessner, who had met them when they opened for the National, produced it and plays synthesizer alongside Hutchison, while Thomas Bartlett, Simon Liddell and Andy Monaghan all add keyboards, tilting the band toward the electronic. Grant Hutchison drums, Billy Kennedy plays bass and Craig Silvey mixed it. Scott Hutchison wrote the words and sings them; after his death in 2018, the others retired the band's name.

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