Hoxton Bar & Kitchen

Frightened Rabbit at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London, UK, Thu 02 Oct

Review by Alexander Tudor

Like many a great lyricist (Will Oldham, Stephin Merritt, Morrissey) Hutchison knows that emotive lyrics tend to sound cliché unless the silliness is built in: anger doesn’t really resonate unless it’s inventively homicidal, lust needs to be incestuous, despair needs to be suicidal.»