Full Version: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
QUOTE (Simakos @ Apr 17 2009, 06:11 PM) 
ha, actually I dig the record (just listening for the 1st time), but oddly I did think of both of those bands when listening (neither of which do I like). Not a big fan of the singer either.
i think you are an insane person... like really damaged.
QUOTE (Simakos @ Apr 18 2009, 12:22 AM)
i think you are an insane person... like really damaged.
could be. what tipped you off, though?
i just chatted briefly with Scott.
he's such a swell dude.
he also said he's about 2/3s of the way through writing the new album. he also said some other stuff. all in all, one of the better chats i've had all day.
he's such a swell dude.
he also said he's about 2/3s of the way through writing the new album. he also said some other stuff. all in all, one of the better chats i've had all day.
alright, so i'm sure you guys have already talked about this on page (?!) but there are 24 pages here so i'm just gonna ask: is this any good?
QUOTE (bleach @ May 12 2009, 04:24 AM)
alright, so i'm sure you guys have already talked about this on page (?!) but there are 24 pages here so i'm just gonna ask: is this any good?
erm have you read any of the 24 pages?
it's fucking amazing, now stop fannying about on here and go and listen to it
um, exactly four pages have been read. c'mon peenko, nobody reads 24 page threads on frightened rabbit. i might read 24 pages on coolrock but that's about it.
QUOTE (bleach @ May 11 2009, 10:24 PM)
is this any good?
Dunno - Simakos helped himself to a(nother?) copy from their merch backstage as we wandered around after the Metro show & handed one to me. It's sitting in one of those wierd Bermuda piles on the shelves along with the free cd's from music rags, 'naked' cd's folks have burned me, et al.
The album proper, though, really is good.
HEY GANG, LOOK. A NEW FRIGHTENED RABBIT SONG!!!!
well well well, would you look that...
lovely tune.
that's one new Twilight Sad song and one new FR song in the same day for me.
lovely tune.
that's one new Twilight Sad song and one new FR song in the same day for me.
i listened to this album today. it was lovely.
good news is good...
Bottom Lounge show will be a blast.
Bottom Lounge show will be a blast.
tix on sale now!
hey assholes, we're all going to see them twice next Sunday.
rejoice...
rejoice...
those Bottom Lounge tix are 15 bucks in advance?!
such bulldick
such bulldick
Thought this was kinda funny. from the comments section on songmeanings.net for "Fast Blood":
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This song is not about sex AT ALL! This song is about a simple kiss... He says goodnight, and then he says that it's stroke time, which means, because he's saying goodnight that this is when they kiss, and then they get paralyzed down both sides because they freeze when it comes to kissing one another... The whole song is about how he feels about the kiss, it even mentions the kiss, and it's long, and passionate, and is a goodnight kiss... BRILLIANT SONG!!
songmeanings is typically good for some entertainingly idiotic guesswork into lyrical content.
QUOTE (EL OSO @ Jul 11 2009, 04:25 AM)
hey assholes, we're all going to see them twice next Sunday.
rejoice...
rejoice...
WHOOP!!!
monday is going to be awful
FR gets the "must see" nod from the Trib:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...t20090714123918
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...t20090714123918
Scott talks about new album a bit
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archiv..._festival_4.php
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archiv..._festival_4.php
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Siren Festival 2009: Q&A With Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison
By Michael D. Ayers
Thursday, Jul. 16 2009 @ 5:15PM
Frightened Rabbit started to gain a following after last year's sleeper hit Midnight Organ Fight. With a sound that's relatively reminiscent of the early days of Bright Eyes, the Scottish four-piece has spent this year writing and recording their follow-up, a currently untitled release due in spring 2010. Expect one or two new songs this weekend, when Frightened Rabbit plays the Siren Festival Main Stage at 4pm, right before Grand Duchy.
You're headed to Coney Island this weekend for the Siren Festival.
We're quite excited for it, and I've never actually been to Coney Island.
What have you heard about it?
I've heard that it was a funfare. Exciting, but yet kind of rickety rides over there. Was it deemed unsafe and torn down?
No. It's still going.
Okay, so cool. That's good news then.
Is the idea of the circus or the carnival still active in the U.K.?
It's dying. But I don't know, they still tour. I was just in my home town and I drove past the local park, and to my surprise, there was an elephant wandering around in it from the traveling circus. But it looked kind of sad. It doesn't have a great image as far as particularly ethical. But I guess that's everything. There's still a romantic idea that lives inside you that's kind of childish, that wants the circus to be a cool thing. And for everything to be as it is onstage, but it's not.
Well, it must've been weird to just see an elephant wandering around.
That was cool! I was like "Whoa, an elephant!" You get that child like reaction to it and almost run your car off the road.
Do you have a favorite carnival game?
As far as rides go, I don't mind rollercoasters, but some of those things that put you in a weird state of velocity are a bit upsetting. But anything that requires very decent skills, like throwing something at something else and you win something cuddly, is fine by me.
What have you been up to this year? There's a new record in the works?
The recording is done and we finished it last week. We're getting mixed over the U.S. after we do a small tour that starts at Siren.
What would you say the sound is like? A bit different than the last one?
It is different. Last time was a rushed effort, but we seemed to pull it off okay. This time we had more time; it's much more layered, much more detailed. I think we're moving away from sounding like a rock band. Music that I listen didn't reflect Frightened Rabbit's sound. This new stuff just veers into territories that we hadn't explored until now, in terms of using synthesizers and samples and loops and drum overdubs.
I had read that you described Midnight Organ Fight as more pop oriented, compared to earlier work. But it sounds like you're getting away from that notion.
It's really just the treatment of the songs that has changed. The way I write songs is still the same-I still love a chorus. There's something nice about having that kind of standard pop structure to hang something slightly different onto. Lyrically, it doesn't focus on the same theme.
What does it focus on lyrically?
I wrote a lot of the record in quiet solitude. A friend of mine had an empty house on the east coast of Scotland. Tiny, tiny village, very remote. And I went there to write it. A lot of it focuses on the sea and the remoteness of that. Not necessarily my situation, but the general feeling of losing yourself within something, whether that be physically or geographically. Or whether it's chemicals or something-just losing yourself.
How long were you in that village?
It was about a month and a half. It was great. If you want to look it up, it's called Creil. When it's rough, it's rough as hell. But when it's sunny, it's like Portugal or something. It doesn't feel like Scotland. I was removed from everyone. I had no reception on my mobile telephone, I had no internet access, I had a TV but I tried to avoid it. It was a removal-and I needed it, to recover from the tour.
What was your first time playing New York?
The first time we played New York was in a basement in Brooklyn in January of 2007. There were about 14 people there. I was nervous that people were going to arrive at all. We were out of our comfort zone completely, so it was a wild experience. But even then, New York has always been very welcoming to us. And it's constantly our first and last port of calls on most tours. So it feels like the closest thing to home we have in the U.S.
By Michael D. Ayers
Thursday, Jul. 16 2009 @ 5:15PM
Frightened Rabbit started to gain a following after last year's sleeper hit Midnight Organ Fight. With a sound that's relatively reminiscent of the early days of Bright Eyes, the Scottish four-piece has spent this year writing and recording their follow-up, a currently untitled release due in spring 2010. Expect one or two new songs this weekend, when Frightened Rabbit plays the Siren Festival Main Stage at 4pm, right before Grand Duchy.
You're headed to Coney Island this weekend for the Siren Festival.
We're quite excited for it, and I've never actually been to Coney Island.
What have you heard about it?
I've heard that it was a funfare. Exciting, but yet kind of rickety rides over there. Was it deemed unsafe and torn down?
No. It's still going.
Okay, so cool. That's good news then.
Is the idea of the circus or the carnival still active in the U.K.?
It's dying. But I don't know, they still tour. I was just in my home town and I drove past the local park, and to my surprise, there was an elephant wandering around in it from the traveling circus. But it looked kind of sad. It doesn't have a great image as far as particularly ethical. But I guess that's everything. There's still a romantic idea that lives inside you that's kind of childish, that wants the circus to be a cool thing. And for everything to be as it is onstage, but it's not.
Well, it must've been weird to just see an elephant wandering around.
That was cool! I was like "Whoa, an elephant!" You get that child like reaction to it and almost run your car off the road.
Do you have a favorite carnival game?
As far as rides go, I don't mind rollercoasters, but some of those things that put you in a weird state of velocity are a bit upsetting. But anything that requires very decent skills, like throwing something at something else and you win something cuddly, is fine by me.
What have you been up to this year? There's a new record in the works?
The recording is done and we finished it last week. We're getting mixed over the U.S. after we do a small tour that starts at Siren.
What would you say the sound is like? A bit different than the last one?
It is different. Last time was a rushed effort, but we seemed to pull it off okay. This time we had more time; it's much more layered, much more detailed. I think we're moving away from sounding like a rock band. Music that I listen didn't reflect Frightened Rabbit's sound. This new stuff just veers into territories that we hadn't explored until now, in terms of using synthesizers and samples and loops and drum overdubs.
I had read that you described Midnight Organ Fight as more pop oriented, compared to earlier work. But it sounds like you're getting away from that notion.
It's really just the treatment of the songs that has changed. The way I write songs is still the same-I still love a chorus. There's something nice about having that kind of standard pop structure to hang something slightly different onto. Lyrically, it doesn't focus on the same theme.
What does it focus on lyrically?
I wrote a lot of the record in quiet solitude. A friend of mine had an empty house on the east coast of Scotland. Tiny, tiny village, very remote. And I went there to write it. A lot of it focuses on the sea and the remoteness of that. Not necessarily my situation, but the general feeling of losing yourself within something, whether that be physically or geographically. Or whether it's chemicals or something-just losing yourself.
How long were you in that village?
It was about a month and a half. It was great. If you want to look it up, it's called Creil. When it's rough, it's rough as hell. But when it's sunny, it's like Portugal or something. It doesn't feel like Scotland. I was removed from everyone. I had no reception on my mobile telephone, I had no internet access, I had a TV but I tried to avoid it. It was a removal-and I needed it, to recover from the tour.
What was your first time playing New York?
The first time we played New York was in a basement in Brooklyn in January of 2007. There were about 14 people there. I was nervous that people were going to arrive at all. We were out of our comfort zone completely, so it was a wild experience. But even then, New York has always been very welcoming to us. And it's constantly our first and last port of calls on most tours. So it feels like the closest thing to home we have in the U.S.
does it need to be stated how awesome that bottom lounge show was...
this band does nothing but get better and better everytime...
hearing a new song was nice...and that extended version of backwards walk was great...
scott seemed in utter awe last night at the crowds enthusiasm...even with p4k this was my highlight of the weekend
this band does nothing but get better and better everytime...
hearing a new song was nice...and that extended version of backwards walk was great...
scott seemed in utter awe last night at the crowds enthusiasm...even with p4k this was my highlight of the weekend
yeah, that Bottom Lounge show was something else. i love when they use that bass organ-pedal set up. and it can't be repeated enough how awesome Grant is back there on drums.
this band is just going to keep getting bigger and bigger. you watch.
this band is just going to keep getting bigger and bigger. you watch.
QUOTE (el oso @ Jul 20 2009, 02:18 PM)
yeah, that Bottom Lounge show was something else. i love when they use that bass organ-pedal set up. and it can't be repeated enough how awesome Grant is back there on drums.
this band is just going to keep getting bigger and bigger. you watch.
this band is just going to keep getting bigger and bigger. you watch.
yeah and the trib concurs as well...
btw headlights were pretty great...i feel like we talked about them before and i commented on how hot the chick is in the band
and its this photo
Yeah, it was a sloppy hoarse but ultimately really fun show. Nice to hear "Yawns."
Scott did seem to be particularly blown away at the crowd enthusiasm, but people were really boisterous. Also, given how short the line for hard tickets/will call was, it seemed like they won a lot of people over earlier in the day or got a lot of good word-of-mouth from their set.
So yeah, as el oso said, hard to not see bigger things in the rabbits' future.
Scott did seem to be particularly blown away at the crowd enthusiasm, but people were really boisterous. Also, given how short the line for hard tickets/will call was, it seemed like they won a lot of people over earlier in the day or got a lot of good word-of-mouth from their set.
So yeah, as el oso said, hard to not see bigger things in the rabbits' future.
the crack scott made when he started playing twist and then started singing all my friends cracked my shit up
and just read that interview...i dug that new song "swim until you cant see the shore"
and just read that interview...i dug that new song "swim until you cant see the shore"
New album is finished, to be released early next year. There’ll be an as-yet-unknown single in November.
QUOTE (The Anti-Ringo Monster @ Aug 14 2009, 01:02 PM)
New album is finished, to be released early next year. There’ll be an as-yet-unknown single in November.
the new single is going to be called Living in Colour, or so they said at their gig in Edinburgh on Tuesday
sounded good too
Eagerly anticipating a new record from this band, but I'm really afraid it's just going to pale in comparison. How you're ever going to match the emotional heft of some of the songs from Midnight Organ Fight, I don't know.
QUOTE (Chicken Invaders! @ Aug 21 2009, 01:22 PM)
Eagerly anticipating a new record from this band, but I'm really afraid it's just going to pale in comparison. How you're ever going to match the emotional heft of some of the songs from Midnight Organ Fight, I don't know.
have you heard Swim (Until You Can't See Land)? if not then look it out, if that song is anything to go by then the album will be amazing
QUOTE (peenko @ Aug 24 2009, 10:11 AM)
QUOTE (Chicken Invaders! @ Aug 21 2009, 01:22 PM)
Eagerly anticipating a new record from this band, but I'm really afraid it's just going to pale in comparison. How you're ever going to match the emotional heft of some of the songs from Midnight Organ Fight, I don't know.
have you heard Swim (Until You Can't See Land)? if not then look it out, if that song is anything to go by then the album will be amazing
I have not. any idea where I might be able to find this song?
QUOTE (Chicken Invaders! @ Aug 24 2009, 11:51 AM)
QUOTE (peenko @ Aug 24 2009, 10:11 AM)
QUOTE (Chicken Invaders! @ Aug 21 2009, 01:22 PM)
Eagerly anticipating a new record from this band, but I'm really afraid it's just going to pale in comparison. How you're ever going to match the emotional heft of some of the songs from Midnight Organ Fight, I don't know.
have you heard Swim (Until You Can't See Land)? if not then look it out, if that song is anything to go by then the album will be amazing
I have not. any idea where I might be able to find this song?
Someone posted it a couple pages back.
I found it.
Just now came to realize that the "you won't find love in a hole" line from "Keep Yourself Warm" may or may not just be referring to a vagina, or possibly butthole, I guess. I always thought it was metaphorical. It still could be.
really getting back into this album in a big way lately. 2008 was really great.
still need to hear Sing The Greys.
really getting back into this album in a big way lately. 2008 was really great.
still need to hear Sing The Greys.
what? it just hit you that it's a metaphor for an orifice? wha?
It just hit me that it could be intended as "You won't find love in an orifice," yes. I thought he meant... I dunno, something else. never thought about it much.
does that make sense?
does that make sense?
here's what the new single 'Living in Colour' sounds like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNEnIocIFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNEnIocIFU
even though the audio is shitty... that is sort of exciting. pretty sure they didn't play this here in Chicago this past summer, did they?
the only new song they played in Chicago was 'Swim Until You Cant See Land' and it was marvelous.
you're my fact checking cuz
I got to see FR at monolith this past weekend and heard another new one... didn't catch the name, but the lyrics said something about "questions & answers" in the chorus. It sounded great, and really makes me confident that the new album will not be a let down.
Also, got to talk to Billy for a bit and he mentioned they'll be adding a 5th member to the band on their tour starting in november, i believe. Exciting times for the rabbits!
Also, got to talk to Billy for a bit and he mentioned they'll be adding a 5th member to the band on their tour starting in november, i believe. Exciting times for the rabbits!
5th member? these guys reproduce like rabbits.
QUOTE (el oso @ Sep 15 2009, 02:23 PM)
5th member? these guys reproduce like rabbits.
its probably russ the guy they mention on the live album and hes also in that video for that new song...i dont think hes permanent...just fills in on certain songs
QUOTE (nagode @ Sep 15 2009, 09:50 PM)
QUOTE (el oso @ Sep 15 2009, 02:23 PM)
5th member? these guys reproduce like rabbits.
its probably russ the guy they mention on the live album and hes also in that video for that new song...i dont think hes permanent...just fills in on certain songs
turns out the new single is going to be Swim Until You Cant See Land after all, bit disappointed we're not getting anything 'new' until the new year
never realized i liked this album till this dumb bitch broke my heart this week... awesome.
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I posted up a bootleg a live recording of their Portland show the other day, there's even a new song called "nothing like you" in there, sounds great
http://peenko.blogspot.com/2009/09/frighte...-at-dantes.html
http://peenko.blogspot.com/2009/09/frighte...-at-dantes.html
QUOTE (Easily Fooled @ Sep 22 2009, 12:54 AM)
never realized i liked this album till this dumb bitch broke my heart this week... awesome.
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This is what happened to me as well. It's really one of the most emotionally naked albums I've ever heard. Have teared up multiple times listening to it, and still get a little misty every time I give it a spin.
QUOTE (peenko @ Sep 25 2009, 10:16 AM)
I posted up a bootleg a live recording of their Portland show the other day, there's even a new song called "nothing like you" in there, sounds great
http://peenko.blogspot.com/2009/09/frighte...-at-dantes.html
http://peenko.blogspot.com/2009/09/frighte...-at-dantes.html
post that new track will ya'?
http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=308
Stream new songs here.
'Fun Stuff' is a reworking of 'Lsat Tango in Brooklyn' which was a wonderful song to begin with.
And 'Swim...' is expectedly great.
Huzah!
QUOTE (Hewletts Daughter @ Oct 2 2009, 03:29 PM)
http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=308
Stream new songs here.
'Fun Stuff' is a reworking of 'Lsat Tango in Brooklyn' which was a wonderful song to begin with.
And 'Swim...' is expectedly great.
Huzah!
Stream new songs here.
'Fun Stuff' is a reworking of 'Lsat Tango in Brooklyn' which was a wonderful song to begin with.
And 'Swim...' is expectedly great.
Huzah!
Now who's going to rip some MP3s of those tracks so I can listen on repeat. Love me some Frightened Rabbit.
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