Frightened Rabbit Comes Out of Hibernation for New Album

It’s cold out. Cold and dry, in a way that causes your lips to crack. Even your thickest scarf won’t keep the air from stinging your neck. But you’re inside, under a blanket, a cup of hot tea on your lap; you’re watching wood disappear in the fireplace. You’re comfortable, safe. That’s the mood of Frightened Rabbit’s music. And in 2010, just after the thaw of winter, we’ll get to hear some more of it; the perpetually-sweater-clad band will release it’s third album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, in March.

With Winter, Glasgow’s wounded-heart troubadours Frightened Rabbit return after 2008’s much lauded The Midnight Organ Fight and the many tours that followed. Although you’ll have to wait until winter is over to hear all of Winter, don’t think that these Scottish bards would leave you hanging; the album’s first single, “Swim Until You Can’t See Land,” is available for streaming right here.

Of the dark, catchy new track, singer Scott Hutchison said in a statement, “It’s the one that sort of sums up the record for me. I had the song’s title in my mind before I even started writing the album; I was becoming more and more interested in the idea of a rejection of the habits and behavior most people see as normal, and in turn embracing a certain madness. This is not necessarily a geographical journey, as the ‘swim’ can involve any activity in which you can lose yourself. It’s a good introduction to the record as the theme unravels therein.”

We’ll take it. And if the song is, in fact, indicative of how the album will turn out, we’re in for a long winter of anxious waiting.

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