Frightened Rabbit’s “The Midnight Organ Fight”
For those of you inclined to care about music geeks and their year-end picks … here’s my choice for best album of 2008.
Frightened Rabbit is from Scotland, a heritage that becomes abundantly clear the moment singer Scott Hutchison opens his mouth. That’s a seriously thick accent the man has, so much so that I’ve heard it joked that this is actually Groundskeeper Willie’s rock band.
It’s not. Groundskeeper Willie doesn’t have melodies in him like this. Or at least, I would think he doesn’t.
Beyond the voice … these are some truly incredible songs, all of them ambitious in their construction and scale. Most of them start with fairly small melodic concepts, which continue to swell and get ever larger.
Dig on this video, for the song “Head Rolls Off”:
