Frighetened Rabbit - A Frightened Rabbit EP

Frightened Rabbit (facebook/twitter) have been consistently on playlists around Walrus Towers since I first fell in love with Keep Yourself Warm. The Scots have been off touring the US for the past few months and have been selling A Frightened Rabbit EP at their live shows – but it is finally getting a proper release at the end of the month on a very limited 500 print-run. Lucky then that you can pick it up digitally for free right now.

Scottish Winds opens the EP reminds you of why you loved the band from day one, with a bass-heavy guitar wrangling around Scott Hutchison’s accented vocals. Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell is brought in to add her sullen vocals to site softly above a military marching-drum rhythm and horns on Fuck This Place. Then on The Work, fellow Scot Archie Fisher is brought in for one-two harmonies in the following the traditional folk tradition.

It is an EP of bleak Scottish beauty.

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Scottish Winds by Frightened Rabbit
Fuck This Place by Frightened Rabbit
The Work by Frightened Rabbit

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Fixers - Imperial Goddess Of Mercy

Fixers (facebook/twitter), who I have written about a couple of times over the past year, have a new EP coming out in December in Imperial Goddess of Mercy, and here we’ve got the first taste of that. Majesties Ranch keeps the best parts of the Oxford band’s debut – with it starting where Crystals left off – upbeat psychadelic surfpop that hypnotises and soothes.

The EP drops on 5th December with their debut full length to follow in the new year.

Majesties Ranch by Fixers.
Trans Love by Fixers.

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65daysofstatic

It’s going to be an exciting few weeks for 65daysofstatic (facebook/twitter) fans, that’s for sure. There is a new song available for free download (below); ‘Burial Scene’ is piano-driven and breathtakingly beautiful, sounding a bit like a lost song from the sessions for ‘The Destruction of Small Ideas’. It’s suitably cinematic, and indeed, it’s taken from their film score for ‘Silent Running’, which arrives on November 14th.

Burial Scene by 65daysofstatic

Before that, though Paul Wolinski is unleashing his debut solo album under the Polinski (facebook/twitter) moniker; ‘Labyrinths’ is due on October 31st, and I can say with confidence that anyone who enjoyed last year’s ‘We Were Exploding Anyway’ is going to adore it. There is an album mix doing the rounds, consisting of all seven songs, and a cut from the album itself was released for free download recently (both are below). ‘Tangents’ could be called the polar opposite to his band’s latest offering; while also piano-driven, it’s much more energetic and almost full-on danceable – though it is mostly in 5/4, so good luck with that, as odd time signatures and dancing don’t usually mix.

LabyrinthsTeaser by Polinski

POLINSKI ‘TANGENTS’ by Monotreme Records

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