Last Monday night, I walked down a snow-filled Bleeker Street for another chance to see the Scottish, alt-folk band Frightened Rabbit, for the second time in as many weeks. The all-request, all-acoustic set, would be their swansong for the year-long tour promoting the oft praised Midnight Organ Fight. Literally, every song yelled out by the respectful crowd was played. At one point, frontman Scott Hutchinson said that he was expecting people to yell out Freebird, and that every time someone had done that, he was going to pull a song like Floating in the Forth. Of course then someone yelled out Freebird. Over the course of several hours, the band played close to eighty percent of their discography, and one and a half covers (Hutchinson played about a minute of The National's Fake Empire, before admitting he didn't know anymore of the words).
The intimate (yet unfortunately loud) venue of (Le) Poisson Rouge, allowed for a humorous, epic, and often disjointed show (they joked that they had never played Backwards Walk, one of their more sobering songs, on an already sobering album, as the lead in to a show - but "what the hell"). Hutchinson's vocals seemed a bit off compared to what I heard at Bowery Ballroom, but the show was a joy nonetheless. For what it's worth, I put Fight up there with the Fleet Foxes for album of the year, and when Hutchinson, as a joke, picked up the blank setlist as a 'souvenir', I was seriously considering grabbing for it.
Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (Live @ (Le) Poisson Rouge) from Ray C. on Vimeo.
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