The Midnight Organ Fight
by Frightened Rabbit


9.5

based on 10 reviews
Read critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

based on 12 votes
Read user comments
Rate this album

Official Artist Site

The British band's sophomore album was produced by Peter Katis.

LABEL:	Fat Cat
RELEASE DATE:	29 April 2008
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Rock, Indie

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Lost At Sea

Whether or not you choose to accept it, the FACT is that Scotland's own Hutchinson brothers have created a sweet and powerful collection of tunes with The Midnight Organ Fight.

The Onion (A.V. Club)

It's Hutchison's utterly believable desperation and frank lyrics that push the whole thing from good to great.

Drowned In Sound

Here there can be no snobbish derision and calls of 'selling out' or playing to the average man; in creating an album showcasing the very best of the band’s talents they have created one so perfectly fit for, as Scott so vividly puts, “the soft, soft static” of popular radio.

Pitchfork

Their jangly melodies claw their way inside your brain just the same, making them latest in a long line of Glasgow bands to effortlessly combine celebratory sonics and miserablist lyrics into something singular.

Tiny Mix Tapes

This is the least fashionable album I have heard in ages, and all the better for it.

PopMatters

The Midnight Organ Fight is cleaner, more polished, and establishes that the group is indeed maturing, but thankfully not losing themselves.

Slant Magazine

Hutchison and his bandmates reward patience as well as repeated listens, and they deserve credit for unearthing a unique chunk of the Scottish heart, raised on equal parts American punk and traditional folk and bleeding beautifully.

Dusted Magazine

The Midnight Organ Fight is sharper, more polished, and better in parts than "Sing the Greys." There’s only one unfortunate downside. This sharper, more polished effort displays fewer of the things that made the first album so enjoyable.

Spin

Amid such scene-upending sentiments, the band's all-too-Glaswegian moniker represents a clever case of bait and switch. [May 2008, p.98]

Hot Press

Overwrought second album from Glaswegian indie quartet.

The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Nick D gave it a10:
One of those rare album that manages the 'sappy indie boy' trick with not only a degree of grounded, visceral realism which doesn't lose itself in floweriness, but also with honest songwriting, straying from the obvious but never sounding forced. There's a whole bunch of fantastic tunes, great arrangements, and lyrics which never stray to cliche despite their subject matter. If you draw a line between The Twilight Sad's "Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters" and Snow Patrol's "When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up", and you're about there. Fantastico.

Discuss this album in our forums

Return to top of page

The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit

The Midnight Organ Fight
by Frightened Rabbit