Photo: Justine Trickett
At long last, Frightened Rabbit have unveiled the first taster of their new album, and it's absolutely stunning. Hear a clip of 'Death Dream' from new album Painting Of A Panic Attack below.
The new track is an organ-led number in a similar spirit to 'Acts Of Man' from 2013's stellar Pedestrian Verse, but taking F'Rabbit in a much sparser and esoteric direction. Packed with all that aching melancholy that you've come to expect, met with a very human anchoring and raw-nerved lyrics, it's a promising sign of things to come.
The video on Facebook slowly fades in, leading to the date 8 April 2016 - when we assume the album will be released.
A still life / is the last I will see of you / my painting of a panic attack
Posted by Frightened Rabbit on Thursday, 18 February 2016
"The new stuff sounds sparser, it's less guitar driven," frontman Scott 'Owl John Hutchison exclusively told Gigwise last year. "Potentially darker as well, but we'll wait and see. The way that it's coming together, I don't know how it's going to sound until the last day."
"Moodwise it's been a very difficult record for me," he admits. "There's a lot more darkness on it, which is strange because I've been living in Los Angeles and it's constantly bright. I've gone through various states of turmoil there and I think that's going to be evident. There was a little while when I was writing songs and editing out emotion, everyone was wondering if I was alright because I wasn't expressing anything particularly meaningful.
"These were demoes that I was doing at the tail-end of last year - then about three weeks before we were due to start recording, I went away to a cabin and was writing completely fresh on my own. That ended up being like a quarter of the record. I just poured a lot of stuff out, so part of it is going to be a snapshot of how I felt at that time."
The new album will be the first since 2013's triumphant Pedestrian Verse. In the interim, Hutchison also released his debut solo album as Owl John.
