Frightened Rabbit preceed album with March tour

Frightened Rabbit preceed their 3rd full length studio album, 'The Winter Of Mixed Drinks' with a brand new single 'Nothing Like You' on February 22nd. The new album follows on 1st March.

Frightened Rabbit's steady ascent is set to rise incrementally with the release of the new album, appetite for which has been futher stoked by the anthemic 'Swim Until You Can't See Land' teaser single which gave the band their first Zane Lowe plays and left a unaminous critcal impression at NME (No3 On The Stereo), Q (Track Of The Day), News Of The World (SotW), Record Of The Day (Track Of The Week), CMU Daily (Track Of The Day).

'Nothing Like You' typifies a more fully realised Frightened Rabbit sound, and like 'Swim Until You Can't See Land' boasts a stunning string arrangment from labelmate, Hauschka. Speaking to nme.com about the new album, lead singer Scott Hutchison explained 'We've broadened our horizons sonically and it feels like a natural move forward. Most importantly, it's better than the last one. That's all I wanted, really.'

In order to facilitate the new material and flesh out the older tunes live, the band – once upon a time Scott alone– have expanded to a five piece with the addition of new member Gordon Skene (formerly of Make Model). 'We want to do the recordings justice when we play them live. Gordon will be playing a bundle of instruments - we just bought a tasty wee mandolin for him to fiddle. We're really excited to have him involved.'

The March headline dates run as follows, tickets available from 9am, Friday 27th November via www.crowdsurge.com/frightenedrabbit

04/03/10 York Duchess
05/03/10 Manchester Club Academy
06/03/10 Aldershot West End Centre
08/03/10 Bristol Thekla
09/03/10 Oxford Academy 2
10/03/10 London Koko
12/03/10 Birmingham Academy 2
13/03/10 Sheffield Leadmill 2
14/03/10 Norwich Arts Centre