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9.0
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The Fly
They’re hurling themselves fearlessly at the bright lights, and coming back all the stronger for it
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9.0
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Rave Magazine
...this inspirational and infectious album will become a most treasured possession
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8.5
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FasterLouder
The album itself is a fantastic beast, both epic and subdued, full of potent and melancholy lyrics in songs that range from the epic to the sparse, the jangly toe-tapping to rocky grunge
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8.0
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Uncut
When they remember to be lovely, the chemistry is intoxicating. Print edition only
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8.0
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Q
Thrilling and inspiring. Print edition only
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8.0
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Mojo
An album made by a band happily at the peak of their powers. Print edition only
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8.0
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music OMH
This album will, at least in theory, open a new chapter in the band's story, but the songs - as well as being significantly more streamlined
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8.0
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The Skinny
For those who have journeyed with Frightened Rabbit to this point The Winter of Mixed Drinks is as good an album as could be hoped, as the newly-expanded quintet teeter on the edge of mainstream success
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8.0
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The List
The Winter of Mixed Drinks is a more upbeat and coherent album than 2008’s The Midnight Organ Fight, with a handful of brilliant tracks demonstrating singer Scott Hutchison’s maturing songwriting skills
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
The earlier album was the sound of a man left wrestling with the turmoil of a broken heart; the new record is the sound of Hutchinson moving on, growing up and trying to order the chaos he has been left with
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8.0
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The Scotsman
Frightened Rabbit exhibit a preference for soundscape – terse rhythms, swelling strings, subtle brass – over song, composing from the top down
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8.0
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NME
The album deviates from their previous alt-folkish sensibilities: the fuzzed-up shoegazing of ‘Things’ and the anthemic chorus of ‘Living In Colour’ herald an exciting new bullshit-free dawn
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8.0
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The Guardian
The Rabbit are a band overdue a breakthrough, and fans of everyone from Arcade Fire to the similarly revamped Maccabees will find much to love here
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8.0
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Scotland on Sunday
With whooping great choruses and structures of sound, these songs scream to be sung. But their rhythmic shifts and primal chanting would make each karaoke suicide
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8.0
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State
The Winter of Mixed Drinks is consistently thrilling and triumphant
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8.0
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Eye Weekly
Makes for a more upbeat companion to The Midnight Organ Fight, not to mention a big leap forward in maturity
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8.0
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Blurt
Yet another impressive release for the five gentlemen; let us hope that Hutchinson does not run out of stories to tell anytime soon
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7.9
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onethirtybpm
The album sacrifices emotional depth in order to include greater musical expansiveness, a trade-off that may not have entirely payed off but a sensible one nontheless; they have avoided committing the cardinal sin of repeating themselves
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7.5
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The Line Of Best Fit
Frightened Rabbit have produced a solid album that, even though it may not repeat past glories, still stands head and shoulders above its competition
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7.0
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Pop Matters
Takes the roomier pop of their second album and expands it even further, into dynamic and soaring tracks that are as unruly in their size as they are consistently arresting
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6.6
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Pitchfork
...when Frightened Rabbit play to their strengths and a song's chorus is sailing or Grant is pounding out stomping rhythms, it's hard to resist getting swept up in their pop fantasia
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6.0
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God Is In The TV
A more mature well rounded release, more capable of mainstream success than the previous albums but on the whole, is it really as good as 'The Midnight Organ Fight', I'm going to side with no
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6.0
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The Irish Times
Mass appeal beckons, but you suspect that thanks to tracks such as Wrestle, Frightened Rabbit’s indie heart is in no danger of falling down a commercial (rabbit) hole
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6.0
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Spin
...by the time the fourth song to feature a metaphorical drowning rolls around, the string parts start to matter more than the sentiments, which was probably not the intent
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6.0
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No Ripcord
I wish there was a better way to say “it just isn't as good as their last one”
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5.0
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The Music Fix
For album number four they need to be less frightened and find a little more confidence
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5.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The Winter Of Mixed Drinks isn't a bad album, just an inherently unsatisfying one
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