Their music can inspire … and break your heart. It is gloomy … and uplifting.

Frightened Rabbit lives on an emotional rollercoaster.

Fans of The National will relate. Even more so with Frightened Rabbit’s new album, “Painting of a Panic Attack,” because it’s produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner (also co-curator of the Eaux Claires Festival).

This afternoon, the Scottish band played a live Studio:Milwaukee session at 88Nine for invited Radio Milwaukee members. (Become a member.) Tonight, they’ll play at the Pabst, on their first American tour in three years.

The music on this record, the band’s fifth, “is more longing and subtler than anything we’ve done before,” says frontman Scott Hutchinson. “It’s a step forward without losing who we are.”

Stream the Studio:Milwaukee session and interview with Frightened Rabbit below: