Comments on: Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight

By: Hector

Hector — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:48:27 +0000

This is the first time I have heard these songs (listening to them now on Song By Toad) and I am now going to immediately go out and buy the album. Friends had told me how good the new album was and I had deliberately avoided it. As a songwriter I find it depressing to listen to local contemporaries who are far more talented than me (which is most of them!) but these songs are so good I can’t help but listen to them without an enormous smile on my face! I have seen them live and I prefer them on record , but then that was before they became a 4-piece. Th melodies and harmonies remind me of REM which I think is a good thing.

Right, I’ll just put my slippers on and pop out to Fopp…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:33:01 +0000

I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying actually. I am not accusing them of making a play for the mainstream exactly, it’s just that the overall sound of the music sounds a lot to me like it’s heading that way. I’m definitely not accusing them of pimping themselves or anything like that.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:32:36 +0000

a record that has blatant obscenities on 5 of the songs (including the first 2 songs, and arguably 5 of the best 6 songs on the record) is not striving for radio airplay / mass acceptance. i think they’ve upped the ante on musicianship while not losing anything in the songwriting category. a triumphant album, indeed.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:27:38 +0000

You keep getting snagged in my Spam Blocker. I have to go and, erm, manually de-spam you, if you get my drift. No idea why that’s happening, but I’m working on it.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:22:51 +0000

Why ain’t my comments coming up when I post them? Am I on a stealth approve setting?

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:21:07 +0000

FR new LP = bollocks. I don’t like it.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 11 May 2008 18:42:05 +0000

I can understand why the Snow Patrol comparison is tempting – and I realise you’re probably in agreement about this – but even to make it is insulting to a band like Frightened Rabbit, who clearly piss from a second storey window all over Gary Lightbody or whatever the fuck that sap is called.

The fact is that Scott Hutchison is a much better songwriter: wilfully original, difficult lyrics as opposed to cheap crowd-pleasers that are supposed to appeal to some fake collective sense of heartwarming-ness.

I think the only real similarity is that they both aim for raw emotion. FR do it authentically, Snow Patrol certainly don’t.

By: Larissa

Larissa — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:17:34 +0000

I’ll admit I’m not hugely familiar with everything Frightened Rabbit has done, but I just downloaded Poke from you and it reminds me of Bright Eyes. Which is a good thing.

By: Euan

Euan — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:10:34 +0000

yes – you’re nuts!!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:28:49 +0000

Drinking in the Fresh Air studio.

And Frightened Rabbit, whose new album I am failing to find as mind-blowing as everyone else. Thoughts?