The Midnight Organ Fight: User Reviews

Afghanistan delivered the poppy seeds, Malcolm Middleton delivered the suicidal tendencies
By boomshanka from Lakeview, April 25, 2008

Malcolm Middleton (aka, Arab Strap) and Idlewild (aka, Roddy Woomble) both have delivered toss-offs during their respective forays into highland ballads. However, Frightened Rabbit takes the cake, certainly. On their best days, either "AS" or "I" would spank "FR" into next week with classic hooks and classic lyrics. Not that "FR" is lacking in either - on "The Modern Leper" a man is described as being on his "last leg", contrasting twisted humor with melodic guitar flange effects. If this was a person's first introduction into the sub-genre of post-euro-emo melodic sad-core, this might be thought of as a landmark sound. However, a person would do better to invest their hard-earned paychecks in Beatnik Filmstar's 1999 disc "Boss Disque" from Merge records (they're british). This album conjures up images of a technotic underworld full of robotic fire noise. Frightened Rabbits, on the other hand, conjures up images of Twilight Zone - the movie, the scene where the magic kid eats peanut butter hamburgers and creates monster cartoons. However, Dan Akroid was in that movie, so it can't all have gone completely wrong, surely!