★★★★★
Frightened Rabbit continue to go from strength to strength, with forthcoming slots at Glastonbury, T in the Park, and Reading & Leeds likely to further cement their position as one of Scotland's top working acts. With February's Pedestrian Verse a hit both commercially and critically, this new 5-track EP serves both as a good introduction to the FR concept, as well as offering existing fans something new...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-06-04
★★★★★
Pedestrian Verse was released the first week in February. I am writing this the second week in May. With a solid three-month resting period, this review is not one of initial reactions or comparisons to Frightened Rabbit's previous efforts. With slightly more perspective, this review is one of a developed appreciation and a deeper understanding of just how textured this record is...
- www.punknews.org
2013-05-15
★★★★★
On their first three releases Frightened Rabbit have more closely resembled an outfit fronted by a budding songwriting/front-man with backup players than a full band; that is not the case with Pedestrian Verse as it has all come together for the group with this release. Scott Hutchinson has always been the main focal point of the group dating back to their origins (just him and a 4 track) but here all of the songs are written by the band as whole with Hutchinson providing the words...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-04-11
★★★★★
Its title deliberately chosen by the band's gifted lyricist Scott Hutchinson to challenge himself, Frightened Rabbit's fourth album, Pedestrian Verse, is full to bursting with words and descriptions that are anything but.
After a diversion into more oblique themes and imagery on their previous release, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, the band now return to the full power of their earliest work...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Over their first three records, Frightened Rabbit, has made some big changes. We've all but forgotten about the angular, taut rock of Sing the Greys, since it was followed by the excellent songwriting and acoustic-driven, jangle-pop bent of The Midnight Organ Fight. But Winter of Mixed Drinks didn't expand that so much as it crushed it under the foot of some serious maximalist rock moves...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Pedestrian Verse is an album made up of melodies, lyrics and verses that are completely, well, pedestrian. The 12 tracks follow a fairly straight line of Mumford & Sons-ian driving beats and jangly guitar picking (sans banjo) without any true spirit or energy. The album starts off with Scott Hutchison describing the failures of men within society ("Acts of Man"), including intense violence and rape...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The title of Frightened Rabbit' s fourth full-length release, Pedestrian Verse , is taken from a line in "State Hospital", the eponymous track from their recent EP . The woeful protagonist, victim of misbegotten beginnings and unfulfilled sexual escapades (sound familiar?) is described as "a slipped disc in the spine of community / a bloody curse word in a pedestrian verse"; reduced to a mere profanity, she lacks even the dignity of being offensive in a noble setting...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Cometh the hour, cometh the bun-bun; whispers have been building for years that Frightened Rabbit's time must be nigh. Soon, the juncture when things finally align for their complex anthems, their tunes with teeth, brains and hearts and big soaring choruses your dad would like (OK, my dad, and yes, he is Scottish) must arrive.
Seriously, though, this has to be it...
- thequietus.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Like so many albums destined for underground classic status, Frightened Rabbit's second set The Midnight Organ Fight was wilfully idiosyncratic, painfully intimate, and the perfect soundtrack for the worst of times... just as they tip over to become the best of times, because all that going out, mixing drinks, and going home with the wrong people turned out to be a way of re-connecting, rather than hitting bottom...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-04-01
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