New Video: Frightened Rabbit- "Late March, Death March"

Frightened Rabbit just released a new video for the song "Late March, Death March" off their latest LP, Pedestrian Verse. The video follows the band across a recent tour in Australia with various live footage. Speaking of touring the Rabbits will also be playing at a number of festivals this summer including Glastonbury, with dates in support of The National back in the US also on deck.

 
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Frightened Rabbit cover Best Coast's- "The Only Place"

At a recent tour stop down under, Frightened Rabbit stopped by the Australian radio station Triple J to partake in their 'Like A Version' series. The band chose to tackle Best Coast's "The Only Place" along with an acoustic version of their own track, "The Woodpile" off their latest disc, Pedestrian Verse. Watch them both below.



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SXSW Photos: Frightened Rabbit @ Dickies Presents FILTER On Rainey Showcase

A very special thanks to Alyssa Jones at Filter.

'Song of the Week': Frightened Rabbit- "Dead Now"

Frightened Rabbit's fourth studio album, Pedestrian Verse hits stores across the US today. I have to admit I'm a big fan of these guys but when I first started hearing previews of the new LP back in the fall that I was a little underwhelmed. Fast forward a few months and this is an album that has not only grown on me, but one that I've truly fallen hard for. One such track that I completely missed the boat on was "Dead Now' which could be one of the best and catchiest thing the band has done. From the slinky bass line to the dark and somber lyrics mixed with the upbeat tempo, this has been my go-to song on Pedestrian Verse the last week or so.
Give a listen and read along below.


Frightened Rabbit- "Dead Now"
I'm not myself, I am
A broken boxer stuffed with glass and sand
This is not how health should feel
Songs sung from the lungs of the elderly

I'm dead now, check my chest and you'll see
The life has been mined from me, burned for the heat, oh
I'm dead now, can you hear the relief
As life's belligerent symphony's finally ceased, oh

I put my heart where my mouth is
Now I can't thumb it down again
I've gone deviled my kidneys
Now he's living inside of me
If we can't bring an exorcist
I'll settle for one of your stiffest drinks
We'll scream hell towards heaven's door
And now I'll piss on your front porch

I'm dead now, check my chest and you'll see
The life has been mined from me, burned for the heat, oh
I'm dead now, can you hear the relief
As life's belligerent symphony's finally ceased, oh
We're all dead now, join hands and we'll sing
To the glory of hell and the virtue of sin

There's something wrong with me
There's something wrong with me

There's something wrong with me
And there is nothing like poetry
So there you rob me in spite of these tics and inconsistencies
There is something wrong with me
Oh, there's something wrong with me
Oh, there's nothing like poetry
Oh you rob me in spite of these tics and inconsistencies
There is something wrong with me

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New Frightened Rabbit- "If You Were Me" (acoustic)

The folks over at NME just premiered an acoustic version of a new Frightened Rabbit track, "If You Were Me" that didn't make the cut for their upcoming disc, Pedestrian Verse. The new album hits stores this Feb 4th and only if you buy the extended version of the LP will you find the extra track. You can pre-order Pedestrian Verse now via the bands website.


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Burn The Bowery's: 5 Favorite Ep's of 2011

Every year when I try and compile my favorite albums lists I seem to overlook and omit all the great EP's that came out throughout the year. So this year I'm giving a little recognition to some good things that quite literally come in small packages. Here's some EP's that I had in heavy rotation this year. 

In alphabetical order:

Daughter- The Wild Youth EP

http://ohdaughter.bandcamp.com/

Frightened Rabbit-A Frightened Rabbit EP
   A Frightened Rabbit EP by Frightened Rabbit
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High Highs EP

http://highhighs.com/ 

Pickwick- Covers/Split

http://pickwick.bandcamp.com/

Typhoon- A New Kind of House

http://www.wearetyphoon.com/

Song of the Week: Frightened Rabbit-"Fuck This Place"

This might sound crazy, but I think this track may be my favorite thing that Frighetned Rabbit has recorded. That's saying a whole lot because I'm a huge fan of the band. "Fuck This Place" comes off a recent three song EP the band put out (you can still grab it for free HERE) and it features a spine tingling duet with Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell. Every time I hear her vocals come in on the second verse it's pure gold.
 
Here's what lead singer Scott Hutchinson had to say about the track and working with Tracyanne. "This is going to sound like total bullshit, but please don’t exhale a ‘pfft’ and stop reading when I say, this song started off as a dream. I honestly dreamt that i did a duet with a mystery female vocal on it and the ‘I don’t know these buildings’ line was definitely in that dream.
So when it came to the writing, I had two parts in my head all along. I have been a big Camera Obscura fan for a long time and when Tracyanne said she’d be up for this, I was incredibly chuffed and her vocal is just beautiful. It’s fairly obvious what it’s about, though I don’t think it’s necessarily a love story. Sometimes you just need looking after, and everyone can feel like a lost wee boy/girl from time to time, especially when you spend your life on tour."

  Fuck This Place by Frightened Rabbit 

"Fuck This Place"
An itch
My eye twitched like a memory of forgotten bars
One of those cities
One of those nights
Everyone's darling
Everyone's sweetheart
Just this drink to hold my hand
One glass of anything
Anything cheap
And I'm here just because
Everyone else has come just to be seen

Oh I don't know these buildings
I think I'm lost

In the perfumed armpit of time
Develop a deadline
These people are bricks
Six feet stones
Wrapped up in bones
Such disappointment on the paper is writ

So i stand still boring and bored
Fetching my eye again

Against the wall
At the end
At the close
Would you be good enough to take me home
'cause I don't know these buildings
I think I am lost
'cause I don't know these building
I think I am lost

Would you
Would you
would you be good enough to take me home?

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Frightened Rabbit- Free EP

The lads from Frightened Rabbit have given us some new music to hold us over while waiting for a new record to be made. The 3 song EP is available now for free over on the bands website HERE, and it features the tracks, "Scottish Winds"(which we spoke of a few weeks ago), "Fuck This Place" and "The Work."
You can get your hands on the three songs by giving the band your email address.

Here's what lead singer Scott Hutchinson had to say about the creation of the three new tracks

"Scottish Winds"
Funnily enough, this was pretty much all written on a bus. The X95 to be precise. I was on my way back to our cottage in the Borders, the place we were using to write and record at the time. I think the initial nugget came from the fact that it was an extremely windy day.
It’s the first song I’ve formed entirely in my head, as I didn’t have an instrument to hand and would never start strumming one out on a bus, so to speak. So I wrote the lyrics out on my phone and when I got to the cottage I picked up a guitar and it was just sort of… there.

"Fuck This Place"
This is going to sound like total bullshit, but please don’t exhale a ‘pfft’ and stop reading when I say, this song started off as a dream. I honestly dreamt that i did a duet with a mystery female vocal on it and the ‘I don’t know these buildings’ line was definitely in that dream.
So when it came to the writing, I had two parts in my head all along. I have been a big Camera Obscura fan for a long time and when Tracyanne said she’d be up for this, I was incredibly chuffed and her vocal is just beautiful. It’s fairly obvious what it’s about, though I don’t think it’s necessarily a love story.
Sometimes you just need looking after, and everyone can feel like a lost wee boy/girl from time to time, especially when you spend your life on tour.

"The Work"
This was another one written on a bus, this time the number 62 to Peebles. Again, it was a duet from the start. I have been thinking a lot about ageing and death, especially on our new songs. So two distinct characters emerged fairly quickly.
There’s me being the belligerent young upstart asking ‘what’s the point in getting old?’, then there’s Archie as the counterpoint, convincing me that it ain’t all bad.
It was such an honour to work with Archie. He’s a real Scottish legend, and my mum and dad couldn’t believe I was singing with one of their heroes. When I listen to this one, I think of the great day I spent at his house, mulling over the tune and listening to all his hilarious stories. A real privilege.
  A Frightened Rabbit EP by Frightened Rabbit 

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'Song of the Week': 'Frightened Rabbit-"Not Miserable"

When I last spoke to Frightened Rabbit fromtman, Scott Hutchinson about what was next for the band and the pressure of their next record, he stated ...."Does anyone want to hear me sing a break-up song again? I think I've covered it." Indeed following up 08's brilliant The Midnight Organ Fight was no easy task for the band, with critics and fans falling in love with the brutally honest and personal take of Hutchinson's dissolved relationship on that disc. It's definitely one of my favorite albums of the last several years and with the new disc hitting stores, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, I was anxious to hear the bands latest direction. So often in life high expectations just fall short, but I honestly have to say that the disc sucked me in on it's first listen and has been growing on me more and more with each additional spin. Granted it's not another break-up record, but what did you expect 'The Midnight Organ Fight pt2'? The disc shows a writer moving forward after the chaos of his relationship, maturing in front of us, and dealing with the pieces that are left. Hutchinson to me, cements himself as one of the best songwriters around right now, the guy just flat out knows how to capture the uneasyness of love.
In "Footshooter" he sings...."And if I shoot at you, you should shoot at me too. And we can drown in pools of the thick dark words we threw" and there's this from "Swim Until You Can't See Land" ..."Let’s call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past, She’s there on the shoreline, throwing stones at my back."
There's still the same charm in the music that 'TMOF' had and the band expanded their line-up, and streched the depth of their sound, but if I had to some up 'The Winter of Mixed Drinks' I would have you listen to one of my favorites off the disc,"Not Miserable" to show just how Hutchinson is moving forward, and so should fans expecting another 'Midnight Organ Fight'. Check it out below.



"Not Miserable"

Well this is easier now
I found all the pieces I lost in the flood
And it wasn't that much
And though it's easier now
I will always remember the night that I almost drowned
All alone in a house

And the love that I lost
With all of the shit that came out in the wash
Just a pocket of fluff
I'm not put upon
I am free of from disease no greys, no liver-spots
Most of the misery's gone... gone, gone to the bone

I'm not miserable now
No one knows
No one knows
I'm not miserable

So the hymns that I sung
Prayers for the fucked, from a bitter, forked tongue
Sing of history now
Though the corners are lit
The dark can return with the flick of a switch
It hasn't turned on me yet, yet

I'm not miserable now
No one knows
No one knows

I'm not miserable now
No one knows
No one knows
I'm not miserable

Well this is easier now
I found all the pieces I lost in the flood
And it wasn't that much

and here's our previously mentioned interview with Scott from 2008.


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Frightened Rabbit: stream new album in full; watch new video

Possibly my most anticipated disc of the year, next to The National's forthcoming album is Frightened Rabbit’s new one, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. The bands third full length, and follow up to 2008's brilliant The Midnight Organ Fight, isn’t due in stores until March 9 via FatCat records, but if you need to hear the album asap like me, you can head over to the bands to myspace page now where it is streaming in full. In addition it will be also be streaming on NPR music starting this Sat., Feb. 27.

And while were talking all things FR, check out the new and second version of the video for the album track, “Nothing Like You” which sees the guys getting down to the bare basics, literally.



Frightened Rabbit North American tour dates:
Mar 17 SXSW Austin, Texas
Mar 18 SXSW Austin, Texas
Mar 19 SXSW Austin, Texas
Mar 20 SXSW Austin, Texas
Apr 17 Coachella Festival Indio, Calif.
Apr 19 The Clubhouse Tempe, Arizona
Apr 21 Walters Houston, Texas
Apr 22 The Loft @ Palladium Ballroom Dallas, Tx
Apr 23 Revolution Little Rock, Arkansas
Apr 24 The Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia
Apr 25 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC
Apr 27 Black Cat Washington DC
Apr 28 Webster Hall New York, New York
Apr 29 The Paradise Boston, Mass
Apr 30 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Penn.
May 3 Petit Campus Montréal, Quebec
May 4 Opera House Toronto, Ontario
May 5 Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio
May 6 Southgate House Newport, Kentucky
May 7 The Old Rock House St. Louis, Missouri
May 8 Metro Chicago, Illinois
May 9 Pabst Theater Milwaukee, Wisconsin
May 10 Varsity Theater Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 12 Bluebird Theater Denver, Colorado
May 13 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, Texas
May 15 Biltmore Cabaret Vancouver, BC
May 16 Neumo’s Crystal Ball Seattle, Washington
May 17 Berbati’s Pan Portland, Oregon
May 19 The Fillmore San Francisco, California
May 22 Casbah San Diego, California

'Song of the Week' : Frightened Rabbit- "Nothing Like You"; band adds US dates

Armed with a new album this coming March, Frightened Rabbit will be making their return to U.S. shores that same month with an appearance at SXSW, followed by a more detailed North American trek in April.
In other news the band just unveiled a new video from the new album for the killer track, "Nothing Like You."
Man am I looking forward to this one. The Winter of Mixed Drinks hits stores on March 2nd via Fat Cat Records.


Frightened Rabbit on MUZU

Frightened Rabbit North American Tour Dates:
March 12 - 21 SXSW Festival, Austin, TX
17 Apr - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Indio CA
19 Apr - The Clubhouse, Tempe AZ
21 Apr - Walters, Houston TX
22 Apr - Loft @ Palladium Ballroom, Dallas TX
23 Apr - Revolution, Little Rock AR
24 Apr - The Masquerade, Atlanta GA
25 Apr - Cat's Cradle, Carrboro NC
27 Apr - Black Cat, Washington DC
28 Apr - Webster Hall, New York NY
29 Apr - Paradise, Boston MA
30 Apr - First Unitarian, Philadelphia PA
3 May - Petit Campus, Montreal QC
4 May - Opera House, Toronto ON
6 May - Southgate House, Newport KY
7 May - The Old Rock House, St. Louis MO
8 May - Metro, Chicago IL
9 May - Pabst Theater, Milwaukee WI
10 May - Varsity Theater, Minneapolis MN
12 May - Bluebird Theater, Denver CO
13 May - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT
15 May - Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver BC
16 May - Neumo's, Seattle WA
17 May - Berbati's Pan, Portland OR
19 May - The Fillmore, San Francisco CA
22 May - Casbah, San Diego CA

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Frightened Rabbit get in the spirit, cover "Walking in the Air"

Frightened Rabbir got in the Christmas spirit of things recently, while stopping by the BBC. The band tackled the song
"Walking in the Air" which was originally written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film 'The Snowman'. In the film the song was performed by St. Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty.
In the meantime the bands new forthcoming disc The Winter of Mixed Drinks is due out on March 1st 2010 via Fatcat records. You can check out the first single from the disc, "Swim Until You Can't See Land" here.

Another new track from Frightened Rabbit

These guys nabbed our 2008 album of the year honors last year, and if the new tracks that have come out so far are any indication of how their forthcoming disc, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, due on March 1st 2010 is shaping up then they're a sure bet to place high again in 2010. A while back we heard the dreamy first single of the new disc, titled "Swim Until You Can't See Land" and now the band have already released plans for their next single, "Nothing Like You" which comes out on February 22nd. You can preview the new track below from a live session the band recently recorded for the BBC.
Frightened Rabbit-"Nothing Like You" (live)


Frightened Rabbit-"Swim Until You Can't See Land"

Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?- 'Wednesday in Words' w/ Frightened Rabbit

After unveiling their new single recently, "Swim Until You Can't See Land", Frightened Rabbit have also announced the title and release date for their upcoming 3rd studio LP, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. The new disc will be out this March on FatCat Records, and follows up the bands utterly brilliant, 'The Midnight Organ Fight.' which nabbed our '08 album of the year honors.
Whereras the last album dealt in vivid detail of a break-up of a relationship, frontman/guitarist Scott Hutchinson say's that this album needed a fresh direction ... "Thematically, this record had to be different from the last," "Nobody wanted to hear more break-up songs, and thankfully, I no longer had any in me." The LP's lead single, "Swim Until You Can't See Land," is streaming now via FatCat's website and will be out digitally this Nov.17 with the additional track "Fun Stuff."

Frightened Rabbit-"Swim Until You Can't See Land"
We salute at the threshold of the North Sea
in my mind
And the nautical board-man that drove me here
to face the tide and swim
(Whoaaaa) I swim (Whoaaa) swim (Whoaaa)

Dip the toe in the ocean. Oh how it hardens and it numbs.
And the rest of me is a burgeoned man
built to collapse into crumbs
And if I hadn’t come down
To the coast to disappear
I may have died in a land-slide
Of the rocks, the hopes and fears.

So swim until you can’t see land.
Swim until you can’t see land.
Swim until you can’t see land
Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?

Up to my knees now, do I wait? Do I dive?
The sea has seen my like before though it’s my first
And perhaps last time.
Let’s call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past
She’s there on the shoreline
Throwing stones at my back

So swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?

Now the water’s taller than me
And the land is a marker line
All I am is a body adrift in water, salt and sky

So swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Swim until you can’t see land
Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?

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new video: Frightened Rabbit- "Swim Until You Can't See Land"

We're always excited here at BTB when anything new comes out from one of our favorite bands, Frightened Rabbit. So when news broke last month about a new upcoming single, 'Swim Until You Can't See Land", out Nov. 16th and plans for a new album in 2010 we can't help but look ahead to the New Year. In addition to the single and album news, the band just released the official video for the track.
You can pre-order the single here http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release
Can't wait for 2010!

'Song of the Week': Frightened Rabbit- "Swim Until You Can't See Land"

Picking up right where they left off with 2008's stellar, The Midnight Organ Fight, Frightened Rabbit are back with a new single titled, "Swim Until You Can't See Land." The new track is slated to appear on the bands upcoming and as of yet untitled next album, which is due out sometime next Spring. The single also features the b-side, "Fun Stuff" which has appeared before as "Last Tango in Brooklyn", with some new arrangements this time around.

You can GO HERE to the fatcat website to stream the single and b-side now.

Here's what singer Scott Hutchinson had to say about the new track, ...“’Swim Until You Can’t See Land’ was the title I had in my mind before I even started writing the album; I was becoming more and more interested in the idea of a rejection of the habits and behaviour most people see as normal, and in turn embracing a certain madness. It’s about losing your mind in order to reset the mind and the body. Forget what’s gone before and wash it out. This is not necessarily a geographical journey, as the ‘swim’ can involve any activity in which you can lose yourself. It’s a good introduction to the record as the theme unravels therein.”

Frightened Rabbit: releasing new single, 'Swim Until You Can't See Land"

We mentioned back in June, a new song by Frightened Rabbit that singer Scott Hutchinson had played while appearing on Offthebeatentracks tv, titled, "Swim Until You Can't See Land." Now it appears that the group will be releasing the song as a new single this November on Fat Cat Records. The single "Swim Until You Can't See Land" which will have another new track on it called "Fun Stuff" is set for a release date of Nov 16th in the UK, or also available on the Fatcat website for fans in the US or otherwise. There will be a pre order option going up soon over at Fat Cat so check back in over there. No word as of yet if either song will be appearing on the groups next album, which is tentatively slated for an early 2010 release.

Episode #5.2: Frightened Rabbit - "Swim Until You Can't See Land" from Off The Beaten Tracks on Vimeo.

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hear a new song by Frightened Rabbit

2008 was a pretty great year overall for music, but when it was all said and done there was one definitive clear cut favorite for my favorite album of the year. And that belonged to Frightened Rabbit's , The Midnight Organ Fight . Much more than your ordinary break-up album, the intimate discs lyrics and imagery paint one of the freshest and most honest spins on relationships I've ever heard. Since the albums release early last year I think I've worn out my car stereo, iPod, and cd player with the LP, so any news of new material from the band is gladly welcome. Frontman Scott Hutchinson recently stopped by the folks at Off The Beaten Tracks TV, where he played three songs, one of which was a brand new track titled, "Swim Until You Can't See Land."
To see the whole session, which included a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's, "Song Against Sex" head on over to offthebeatentracks.tv.
And if you missed it, you can check out our interview with Scott from back in October below.

Episode #5.2: Frightened Rabbit - "Swim Until You Can't See Land" from Off The Beaten Tracks on Vimeo.

Frightened Rabbit tour dates:
Jun 13 Rock Ness Dores
Jul 17 Maxwell’s - SOLD OUT Hoboken, NJ
Jul 18 Siren Music Festival Coney Island, NYC
Jul 19 Pitchfork Festival Chicago, Illinois
Jul 21 Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan
Jul 22 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto
Jul 23 Les Saints Montreal
Jul 24 Jerky’s Providence, Rhode Island
Jul 25 Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, Massachusetts
Aug 18 Queens Hall Edinburgh
Aug 29 Rock at the Racecourse Kelso



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Frightened Rabbit live performance-'The Modern Leper"

Frightened Rabbit's brilliant 2008 LP, The Midnight Organ Fight is still one that gets heavy play on my iPod these days. But as good as the album is, catching a live performance from the band might be an even better experience, watching frontman Scott Hutchinson and the band pour their soul into each performance. The emotionally charged and cinematic LP had some of the best songwriting of the year, and the track that sets it all up was the album opener, "The Modern Leper."
You can catch a great live performance of the track, as the band recently stopped by the studios of NYC radio station WFUV's spin off The Alternate Side.

Burn The Bowery: Favorites of 2008

20 Sigur Ros- Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
19 Weinland- La Lamentor
18 Lykke Li- Youth Novels
17 The War On Drugs- Wagonwheel Blues
16 Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
15 The Secret Life of Sofia- Seven Summits
14 Laura Marling- Alas I Cannot Swim
13 Wye Oak- If Children
12 The Dodos- Visiter
11 Land Of Talk- Some Are Lakes

10 City and Colour- Bring Me Your Love
In what was a very good year for acoustic/folk based music, this one flew way under the radar. This solo project from Dallas Green is passionate and effortless. The man simply has a killer voice.






9 Point Juncture, Wa- Heart to Elk
This one may have appeared even higher if we just didn't recently come across it. Although it's still relatively new to our ears, it had to be included in the top 10. Gorgeous, dreamy, textured pop gems that seem to build and build.



8 Blitzen Trapper- Furr
Our 3rd entry from Portland in the top 20, Blitzen Trapper deliver a detailed new album that grows on you with each listen. Great rootsy old Americana feel, with excellent harmonies.






7 Jessica Lea Mayfield- With Blasphemy So Heartfelt
Amazing debut from the 19 year old Mayfield. Strong album from start to finish and she sounds wise beyond her years. A distinct fresh voice that we think you'll be hearing a lot of for years to come.





6 Helio Sequence- Keep Your Eyes Ahead Our 4th Portland band in the top 20,the album features two of the years strongest tracks in, "Lately' and "Shed Your Love". Singer Brandon Summers severely damaged his vocal cords, which led the band to re-invent it's sound. The result is an ambitious album that beautifully blends, indie rock and folk, with ambient and synth led numbers.


5 Ra Ra Riot- The Rhumb Line If you know the story of the tragedy the band went through, losing there drummer John Ryan Pike to a drowning accident while recording the LP, you can't help but feel the heartbreak that plays out on the disc. Pike wrote some of the LP's most ironic tracks such as, "Dying is Fine" and "Ghost Under the Rocks." Excellent melodic indie rock album.



4 She Keeps Bees- Nests
In a music world that is often times lacking some true soul to it, She Keeps Bees delivers. The NYC powerful two piece is gritty and raw, and frontwoman Jessica Larrabee is one of the finest there is.





3 Damien Jurado- Caught In The Trees
Usually known for his fictional storytelling prowess, Jurado gets personal on his latest disc and delivers his best work yet. For a guy that's been around as long as he has, it's about time he gets recognized for this disc.





2 Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
What can you say, the guy had a killer year, but still one that I just kept coming back to again and again. One of the years most intimate records. It truly takes you away to that cabin in the Wisconsin woods, where you can feel the despair.





1 Frightened Rabbit- The Midnight Organ Fight
Raw, visually blundt, emotional, exceptionally strong songwwriting. Plays out very cinematically with a beginning, middle and end. You won't find a better album from start to finish then this one.