"I'm drunk, I'm drunk, and you're probably on pills. If we've both got the same diseases, it's irrelevant girl"MP3:
Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm (Live Glasgow)from the band's live recording 'Liver! Lung! FR!, due for release March '09 (already out in USA)Length - 5:31
Bitrate - 206kbps (VBR)
Size - 8.2MB
Genre ~ Indie Rock, Folk Rock
Sounds Similar To ~ Shearwater, Malcolm Middleton, Idlewild, The Dodos
Label ~ Fat Cat Records
DiscographyWebsite
Biography courtesy of Last.fm ~ Frightened Rabbit is now a four-piece comprising Scott Hutchison (vocals/guitar), Billy Kennedy (guitar/keyboard), Grant Hutchison (drums) and Andy Monaghan (guitar/keyboard). Andy joined the band after the release of Midnight Organ Fight, allowing them to play many songs from the album they would previously have struggled to fill out instrumentally.
The origins of the band are rooted in 2003, when Scott began playing solo shows under the name Frightened Rabbit, mostly in support of fellow art-schoolers
Shitdisco. Recordings were made on a tascam 4-track recorder, with Scott playing all the instruments (some more proficiently than others). Though looser, sparser, and certainly more lo-fi in terms of production values, their early demo’s still attest to a burgeoning talent with a defined personality, and a now familiar penchant for being able to nail a near perfect pop song.
In April 2008, the band released their second full length: ‘
The Midnight Organ Fight’, a progression in terms of songwriting, sonic depth, and as a fully realised entity. Recorded by Peter Katis (Mercury Rev, Interpol) over the space of two weeks, and mixed over the ensuing fortnight, ‘Midnight Organ Fight’ was conceived and realised in a much shorter time span than its predecessor, with the intention of creating a more coherent, ‘pop’ sounding album. Yet although musically more immediate, vitally, the band have not forsaken the personality or passion of any of their earlier recordings.
In July 2008, a live rendition of ‘Midnight Organ Fight’ was recorded in Glasgow, and mixed by Mice Parade’s Adam Pierce, entitled ‘
Liver! Lung! FR!’ The stripped-down instrumentation brings singer Scott Hutchison’s vocal delivery - now wrenching, now soaring - to the fore, showcasing the emotive lyrics and memorable melodies that have earned the band their passionate following.
Album thoughts ~ Yeh, it's good, but I'm clearly not as much of a fanboy as the person who wrote that bio.
"I know this one I know this song,
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