Friday, February 15, 2013

Album Capsules--Frightened Rabbit

Frightened Rabbit

Pedestrian Verse

66/100

Scottish indie band makes a few quirky-cool albums, gets picked up by a major label, and produces Pedestrian Verse.  Add polish, lots of polish, as well as anthemic choruses and a stadium-sized sound.  Subtract the quirky.  What you're left with is an album that has been surprisingly well-reviewed despite a collection of sterile tunes drained of emotion.  Still, this album is designed to contain hits, and it probably does.  It's just not the sort of album you'll think about listening to after you've owned it for a week or two.  There will always be something better to choose.  "Dead Now" is probably the pick of the litter.


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