Frightened Rabbit

Due to the current air traffic crisis I have been stuck on my holiday in India for an additional 6 days. During this period I have had to cut down on the use of my iPod so as not to waste the battery, a circumstance which isn't greatly recieved by myself. Over these last few days I have realised a profound flaw in the contents of my iPod. My music collection is becoming less of a collection and more of a hoard, as I am amassing music at a far greater rate than I can listen to all of it. And as my collection has grown I find it increasingly harder to choose an album or artist to listen to. I tried the shuffle function but that is unsatisfactory as a large amount of the time it plays album tracks which sound odd without the rest of the album around them. But if I do find something I like I will then be compelled to download the entire back-catalogue of sed band or artist.


An occasion where this has worked beautifully in my favour was when after a customary trawling through of my iPod I stumbled upon 'Swim Until You Can't See Land' by 'Frightened Rabbit'. It's not like I hadn't heard the song before but the brilliance of the song and the band hit me. I then decided to download the rest of their latest album 'The Winter of Mixed Drinks' of which that song comes from and their two previous albums 'Sing the Greys' and 'The Midnight Organ Fight'. This decision I have not at all regretted as all three of these albums are some of the best I've heard and I say this cautiously but I would class them as my favourite band at the moment. I only say this cautiously as I don't really believe in having a favourite band or artist as they change according to mood. It seems to me like Frightened Rabbit's music changes according to my mood and the lyrics always seem personal in some way or another. Scott Hutchinson's lyrics are ezxtraordinary and those of you who are familiar with 'The Midnight Organ Fight' will have encountered the immortal lyric "You're the shit and I'm knee deep in it".


These songs have been the soundtrack to the last few months for me, and when you hear about adults talking about having soundtracks for their childhood, I think Frightened Rabbit may be the soundtrack to mine. To be perfectly honest, I really wouldn't mind obsessively listening to more of their Scottish folk-indie mix for the next five of so years.