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Thanks to our friends at Inertia, we have five copies of the awesome new Frightened Rabbit CD — The Midnight Organ Fight — to give away to randomly selected Australian Lost At E Minor subscribers. If you aren’t already a subscriber to our weekly email newsletter, sign up for free now. To win a copy, just tell us why Scottish music is the bomb or why this album will change your life (whichever comes first). Entries close Tuesday morning Australian time.
FRIGHTENED RABBIT are an unconventional three-piece with a defined personality, and a gift for being able to nail a near perfect pop song, Frightened Rabbit convey candid tales of ordinary folk with a wry, acerbic wit via an eloquent, emotive, modern garage-pop aesthetic.
‘The Midnight Organ Fight’ is produced by PETER KATIS. Who is know and loved for producing INTERPOL (the 1st two), THE NATIONAL (the last two) THE GRATES etc and who also engineered MERCURY REV’s opus ‘Deserter Songs’)
An incredibly accomplished live outfit, seemingly without any effort whatsoever, their performances at times recall the ragged, muscular energy of emo/punk (when emo was a credible phrase) three pieces such as early SEBADOH or MISSION OF BURMA, but Frightened Rabbit’s ouvre nevertheless harbours a far more universal agenda. They mix the punk power of the PIXIES with the pop emotion of SNOW PATROL.
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Zolton said | 3 September, 2008
Hey Jaddan, you got the CD. Please email me with your postal address via the contact form on our site:
http://www.lostateminor.com/contact-us/
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jaddan said | 18 August, 2008
Life, just like the movies, is articulated by the force of its musical back-drop. Change the sound, change the context, the reflex, the anticipation, the ambient fluidity. Everyday the absence of the music from this album is impacting myriad life defining actions and choices, what I wear, where I go, what I eat, potentially even whether or not I should draw the curtains. Change is good. Embrace change. This album will change my life.