Frightened Rabbit are commemorating 10 years since their second album The Midnight Organ Flight with the release of a remarkable covers edition of it. The likes of Daughter, Biffy Clyro, Nova Scotian friends of their Wintersleep are on the mouth-watering track listing.
We don’t have to wait as long as its official release date of 12 July to hear anything from it fortunately. Scotland’s own Biffy Clyro and Tennessee singer Julien Baker jump in first and have their covers of ‘Modern Leper’ already streaming.
Baker’s stunning voice set to a minimal drone sound and sparse piano is a gripping intro to a track that soon soars into a goosebump-inducing chorus.
Biffy Clyro, meanwhile, start off with orchestral folk and soon end up switching on the distortion pedal the adrenalising sound of the Biff at full-pelt ensues.
Of the album release Frightened Rabbit say: “It felt like a good way to celebrate everyone who had been a part of the last ten years of the band, and we didn’t have to do any work ourselves!”
It will be raising money for mental health charity Tiny Changes, which of course reminds us of the tragic death of singer Scott Hutchison.
The album was in the making before Hutchison passed away, and the band's press statement reads:
"Scott was a vital part of bringing this album together and it's something he was very excited about and worked hard to bring to life. He listened to and approved every track on there with us and he had already started preparing the artwork which you'll see on there (if you buy it).
"This is a celebration of a record that connected thousands of people to Scott and connected thousands of people to each other and ten years on it is still managing to do it. Scott would probably have put in some joke here about when the album hits puberty and starts rebelling by smoking weed and getting things pierced. We're not that funny so instead let's just raise a glass, blow out the candles and make a wish."
Tiny Changes - The Midnight Organ Fight track list
1. The Modern Leper – Biffy Clyro
2. I Feel Better – Oxford Collapse
3. Good Arms vs Bad Arms - Fiskur
4. Fast Blood – Right On Dynamite
5. Old Old Fashioned – Josh Ritter
6. The Twist – Wintersleep
7. Bright Pink Bookmark – Peter Katis
8. Head Rolls Off – Craig Finn
9. My Backwards Walk – Katie Harkin & Sarah Silverman
10. Keep Yourself Warm – Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie)
11. Extrasupervery – Jeff Zeigler
12. Poke – Daughter
13. Floating In The Forth – The Twilight Sad
14. Who’d You Kill Now – Aaron Dessner (The National) & Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES)
15. The Modern Leper – Julien Baker
16. The Twist – Piano Bar Fight
17. My Backwards Walk – Manchester Orchestra
