Fatcat Records
Frightened Rabbit, The Midnight Organ Fight
The breakup album has become a cliché, but Frightened Rabbit’s 2008 stab at the genre is the best since the Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen. The Scottish band’s second full-length, The Midnight Organ Fight, is a self-lacerating glimpse into songwriter Scott Hutchison’s psyche following a prolonged breakup, and songs like “The Modern Leper” and “My Backwards Walk” are full of doubt and recrimination. But Frightened Rabbit inject a darkly comic fatalism into their shopworn subject to keep it from turning into an indulgent wallow.