Tag Archive for 'frightened rabbit'

Album of the Week: The Midnight Organ Fight

Published on January 4, 2009 in Album of the Week. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

It’s time to clarify what I meant by “resolutions” and “sneak peek” in the previous entry. Well, I realized how important music is to me, it makes me happier and more motivated when I see such amazing artists pull out original sounds and rhythms. So, I’ve decided that this year, every week, around the weekend, I am going to do a post highlighting the album that I found most interesting in the past week. This will also make me follow the latest releases a lot more closely, which is a good thing for me as well!
This week, the artist I’m going to highlight is Frightened Rabbit with their latest studio album The Midnight Organ Fight. From Wikipedia:

Frightened Rabbit are a Scottish indie rock band from Selkirk, Scotland, consisting of Scott Hutchison (vocals, guitar), Grant Hutchison (drums, vocals), Billy Kennedy (guitar, keyboards, bass) and Andy Monaghan (keyboards, guitar, bass). The band has so far released two studio albums, with their second, The Midnight Organ Fight, receiving widespread critical acclaim.

Indeed it is an amazing album! I love almost the entire album, with particular highlights for The Modern Leper, Good Arms vs Bad Arms, Backwards Walk and Keep Yourself Warm. The lyrics range from very brutal and real to very subjective but clearly personal. I really like the musical arrangements and the overall uniqueness of their sound as well as the emotional vocals. I haven’t yet checked out their early work (except for the christmas albums) but I really look forward to it. Meanwhile, as their awesome label (FatCat) allows you to preview full-length at their website, I highly encourage you to go listen to it and if you like it, buy the album.

Happy New Year!

Published on December 31, 2008 in Life. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , .

So we come to the end of yet another year. I have my resolutions and they include some exciting plans for this blog. Thanks to all the readers for staying with me! To finish off in a great note (and with a sneak peak of what is to come), here is a song I recently discovered, and consider the perfect christmas song, which reflects the modern spirit of such celebrations. As the band describes it:

“’It’s Christmas…’ is about people deciding to be pleasant to one another for about a day, regardless of whether or not they actually get along the rest of the year. There’s the same fallout after christmas as perhaps a night out where you end up in someone else’s bed – the next day, after the drink has worn off and the warm lights are turned off, everything’s just as shit as it was the day before and that feeling of comfort disappears. I feel like i have a similar relationship with christmas as i do with booze. Each make me feel nice in a fairly false way, and they are really the only two things i actually spend money on, aside from food. It’s also about that total indulgence period, which always comes with the promise that you’ll eat less, drink less and spend less really, really soon… always tomorrow. I feel it’s maybe healthier to live a little more consistently (not that i do), but often humans need excuses to be nice and giving and loving to one another, and Christmas is one of those times, for better or worse’.

(from FatCat via Wikipedia)

Frightened Rabbit – It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop (2008 version):

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

I totally agree that that is how such celebrations remain important and significant for most people, even when their original meaning was lost. So let’s make it our resolution to keep some of the positiveness of this season alive throughout all 2009, so that when Christmas comes, we’ll be motivated to be even better!

If you liked this, check out the amazing choir version and the rest of their work, it’s a fantastic band.

Happy new year!