Frightened Rabbit - "Swim Until You Can't See Land"

“Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?”

Frightened Rabbit is in my top 3 favorite bands of all time, somewhere with Rilo Kiley and The Mountain Goats. Anyways, this is from their latest album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. I love songs about solitude. I love Scottish accents. I love Frightened Rabbit.

"With those expectations in mind, singer-guitarist and primary songwriter Scott Hutchison retreated to the Scottish coastal town of Crail to write Frightened Rabbit’s excellent new album, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks. Removed from distractions both existential (his and his band’s place in the world) and mundane (online movie trailers), Hutchison wrote the songs that would become the new album—and wrote them differently. Where Organ Fightdeconstructed a failing relationship, Mixed Drinks finds Hutchison stepping away from what he succinctly calls “songs about girls.” Instead, the album is mostly concerned with songs about self, but not in an overly indulgent way. It’s more about discovering what you’re made of—or, as Hutchison sings in “Swim Until You Can’t See Land,” “Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?” Just before the band's appearance at SXSW (including a headlining set at The A.V. Club's free day show, March Into Softness), he spoke to The A.V. Club."

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