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On last night’s episode of Conan, the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit did musical-guest duty, playing their sad-bastard anthem “The Woodpile” about as hard as a song like that can be played. The band brought so many guitars with them and, in the process, did admirable work translating the song’s cathartic grandeur to the stage. Watch [...]
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A few months ago, I wrote about the increasing influence of Mumford & Sons and how that band’s brand of bleeding-heart folk-rock represents the convergence of certain indie trends (howling Avett Brothers roots rock, bookish Decemberists folk-prog, humongous Arcade Fire stadium anthems, woodsy Fleet Foxes classic rock worship) ...
submitted by Nick Feb 22nd 2013 09:00 pm (stereogum.com)
I wrote a little bit about the new Frightened Rabbit album, Pedestrian Verse, prior to its release, and I praised it, because it’s a very good album. But experiencing the singles as they are released (so far: “State Hospital,” “Dead Now,” “The Woodpile,” and now “Bac...
Midweek update reveals Frightened Rabbit and Eels also set to crash into Top 10
Just yesterday, the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit released Pedestrian Verse, their fourth straight album of chest-beating emotional anthems. But the video they’ve released today isn’t for any of the album’s songs; it’s for “Today’s Cross,” the uncharacteristically rambunctio...
Frightened Rabbit’s 2008 sophomore album, The Midnight Organ Fight, was a dark, intimate, stirring collection that dealt with themes of loneliness and sex in such frank detail — with frontman Scott Hutchison’s yearning voice in glaring focus among skin-and-bones instrumentation — that it was occasionally u...


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