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There's something about the modern, accepted way of playing indie that just gets me down. MTV-shagging bands are locked in a desolate embrace with the commerce devil, and rebellion increasingly resides lonely in the underground pop obsession. But where there's loneliness, there's romance...yes?
Frightened Rabbit have been quietly honing their sound in Glasgow's legendary side-streets for the past year, feeling essentially left-out and immersing themselves in the new DiY aesthetic with eager intent, and Be Less Rude emerges out of it all in rolling reams of light.
Beatific guitar shards shoot multifarious, hopeful paths towards stars, the singer Scott Hutchison's vocals are involving and fantastically bashful, weaving between and upwards with a shy sense of rhythm, and as it all goes off in sweet impassioned tones flowers and dancing re-fill the air. Modern indie is absolutely resurgent in its re-embrace of pop, and Frightened Rabbit know how.
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