Frightened Rabbit: The Midnight Organ Fight (FatCat)

Frightened Rabbit caught me by their name. Honestly, I couldn’t resist passing up a band with that name. The Midnight Organ Fight was surprisingly very entertaining.

The UK band fuels their music by keyboard and intriguing vocals. Not only did the band name pull me in, but their sound is very fun and catchy.

The album starts off with Modern Leper. What I really loved about this album is that Frightened Rabbit has a hidden folky/country flair. On the surface it sounds much like other indie rock music, but buried inside is a little personality.

Head Rolls off starts off with a religious statement. The lyric goes, “Jesus is just a Spanish boy’s name.” For a really religious person, this statement could be very offensive. For other’s it could actually get a chuckle. Either one, it gets attention. The song entirely is about life and death and the ever going cycle.

The Twist right off caught me by the keyboard intro. This song is layered. Slowly it adds more instruments and more vocals. Slowly it gets faster and more intense which is a technique Frightened Rabbit seems to use quite often.

The album ends with deep lyrics and their acoustic side in Poke. The band really expresses their emotions in this song as well as throughout the entire album.

I went into this album with absolutely no background of what kind of music Frightened Rabbit was. They turned out to be a band that I plan on listening to a lot more often.