Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land

Frightened Rabbit easily became my favorite band of 2008-09. Midnight Organ Fight was one of the best albums I've heard in a long time, and they are incredible to see live. It's nice to see a band write some decent lyrics, there's been entirely too much in the way of crappy lyrics lately (*cough, Vampire Weekend, cough*).

Needless to say I'm excited for the new album to come out on March 10. I am a little wary of how this album will play out though - they've now received glowing reviews from critics and have been constantly touring to larger and larger crowds. Besides which the last two albums were about break-ups and Scott Hutchinson is apparently over all of that...

I'm worried that they're going to go too poppy, but if they lean towards this kind of pop I'm ok with it:

Passion Pit - "I Got Your Number"

Ok, so I understand that I'm a little behind the curve here. I've been hearing "Sleepyhead" and "The Reeling" for several months and at first I found them irritating. Then they slowly worked themselves into my consciousness. Their album and EP are some of the best I've heard in the last few months.

I would have thought that they would be terrible live, but I learned my lesson about electro bands with Friendly Fires - they're fantastic live!