Painting Of A Panic Attack

Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit have returned with their fifth studio album Painting Of A Panic Attack, out today on Atlantic Records. The five-piece are regulars at Miloco, having worked on their fourth studio album Pedestrian Verse, and Late March, Death March EP in with Craig Silvey at his studio, Toast and the now closed Garden Studios.

Frightened Rabbit have returned with a noticeably more mellow sound, a bit less dramatic and smoother around the edges. Could this be in part to frontman (and songwriter) Scott Hutchinson’s move to sunny LA in interest of love? Maybe, maybe not, but either way the result is an album that is mature, but retaining Hutchinson’s characteristically witty lyrics that focus less on heartbreak, more on homesickness. Then again a lines like, “we all thought I might change as I got older” point to the fact that maybe they haven’t grown up all that much after all.

The band returned Toast to team up yet again with Craig to mix the album, which has already received positive reviews and is currently sitting inside the iTunes UK Top 20 albums chart, and climbing.