'Lyrically ranging from incisive social commentary, to lucid, humourous explorations of interpersonal relationships, Scott’s songs are essentially folk-tinged pop songs with more fervent ambitions.'

The heavy-weight vinyl is accompanied by a free download, and costs only £14.99. You can catch Frightened Rabbit on tour this year and at Reading and Leeds festivals.

Frightened Rabbit 
The Midnight Organ Fight / Quietly Now LP (FATLP70XLTD)
UK & Europe: Limited to 1000 copies
US: Limited to 500 copies
Double 180 grm heavyweight vinyl 

• Limited edition art print
• Four specially created 12"x12" prints each limited to 250 copies
• Numbered prints shrinkwrapped to the front as an alternate cover artwork
  
  This album will be released in limited form as a 2xLP without the special RSD art prints on May 7th 2013, limited to 1500 copies.
  Images here

Breton
Population Density / Governing Correctly Remix 12" (12FAT087)
Remixed by ARTWORK and BUSY P
UK & Europe only: Limited to 1000 copies

• Purple 12” vinyl

The Twilight Sad 

The Twilight Sad vs Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat Split 7" (7FAT124)
UK & Europe only: Limited to 500 copies

• Black litho print on eco-natural recycled board
• Hand stamped labels

See you at your local record dealer on April 20th!
For more information on the sixth annual RSD go to http://www.recordstoreday.com/

Following last year's hugely successful album No One Can Ever Know: Remixes, The Twilight Sad have teamed up with fellow Scots Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat for a split single which sees the jazz pianist and former Arab Strap frontman produce a low key, piano led reading of Alphabet, the opening track from No One Can Ever Know.
On the other side, The Twilight Sad have re-imagined ‘(If You) Keep Me In Your Heart’ from Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat’s brilliant album Everything’s Getting Older.

Breton
Population Density / Governing Correctly Remix 12" (12FAT087)
UK & Europe only - Limited to 1000 copies on purple vinyl

London-based outfit Breton have meanwhile issued a one-off 12" of remixes by Artwork and Busy P.
Governing Correctly, taken from last year’s debut album ‘Other People’s Problems’, is a nod to Daft Punk and DFA, common influences for the band as a whole.
“The fact that Busy P was into one of our tracks was such an amazing experience, but when he sent us the remix he had made of it, we all lost our minds, and were in a state of total bliss for days, just playing it over and over again.
Population Density is about making music in a small room that you only share with 5 people, and then finding out that it has outgrown the room and has a life of its own.
The remix is by Artwork and he has turned it into something that sounds like a slab of pure Detroit.”

Frightened Rabbit
The Midnight Organ Fight / Quietly Now LP (FATLP70XLTD)
Worldwide - Limited to 1000 copies on double heavyweight vinyl

2013 saw Frightened Rabbit achieve breakthrough success with their major label debut Pedestrian Verse, but newer fans may not be aware of what many critics hailed as their first great album, 2008’s The Midnight Organ Fight.
Released here on double vinyl alongside Quietly Now, a live acoustic version of the album recorded in a tiny pub in Glasgow, The Midnight Organ Fight was an instant classic, received with near universal acclaim.
This is the first time The Midnight Organ Fight has been available on vinyl in the US, and the first time Quietly Now has available on vinyl anywhere. Each album will also include one of four limited edition 12" art prints.
 

You can buy their album ‘No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes’ here.

08 Mar - Showbox, Seattle WA

09 Mar - Hawthorne Theatre, Portland OR

11 Mar - The Fillmore, San Francisco CA

12 Mar - Belly Up, Solana Beach CA

13 Mar - Music Box/Fonda, Los Angeles CA

14 Mar - The Crepe Place, Santa Cruz CA*

15 Mar - The Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco CA*

18 Mar - Gothic Theatre, Denver CO

19 Mar - Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln NE

21 Mar - Varsity Theater, Minneapolis MN

22 Mar - Pabst Theater, Milwaukee WI

23 Mar - Riviera Theatre, Chicago IL

24 Mar - 3rd and Lindsley, Nashville TN

26 Mar - Bogarts, Cincinnati OH

27 Mar - Headliners Music Hall, Louisville KY

* The Twilight Sad headlining shows

Yes.

...and to celebrate this anniversary, the band are playing an almost secret show in Edinburgh tonight. We dont know where it is, but I think they’re announcing it all via their twitter

Scott has written a track-by-track of this album for Drowned In Sound which you can read here

Buy all their albums from our webstore.

BRETON
13 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON

DUSTIN O’HALLORAN
12 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON

FRIGHTENED RABBIT
11 June @ Rockness Festival, INVERNESS

HAUSCHKA
12 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON 17 June Sonar, BARCELONA

MAX RICHTER
12 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON

MAZES
14 May The Great Escape, BRIGHTON 19 May / 21 May Stag & Dagger, LONDON / GLASGOW
20 May Sound City, LIVERPOOL 17 July Latitude, SUFFOLK
23 July Tramline, SHEFFIELD 13 August Beacons, YORKSHIRE DALES

MILK MAID
14 May The Great Escape, BRIGHTON 22 May Friends of Mine Festival, CHESHIRE

SILJE NES
3 September @ Sound Of Bronkow Festival, DRESDEN

THE TWILIGHT SAD
12 June Rockness Festival, INVERNESS 16 July The 2000trees, CHELTENHAM
31 July Northern Lights, ABERDEEN 14 August Beacons, YORKSHIRE DALES

WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
31 July @ Northern Lights, ABERDEEN

They deliver a stirring take on ‘Be Less Rude’, a track that not only features on the Rabbit’s 2007 FatCat album ‘Sing The Greys’ but also on the special split cassette of Twilight Sad/Frightened Rabbit demos and unreleased tracks – limited to 400 copies – released by FatCat on Record Store Day.

Check it out!

The US version of the cassette is limited to 777 copies, while the UK version is in an edition of 400. In case you can’t find the Sony Walkman you haven’t used since 1997, the cassettes include download codes to access digital versions of the tracks.

The Frightened Rabbit tracks selected for the tape are from the second installment of demos Scott and his brother Grant sent down, the last time they would record their demos to tape. The tracks were selected carefully – ‘Be Less Rude’, single one from their first album, ‘I Feel Better’ and ‘Keep Yourself Warm’ both finally appeared on ‘Midnight Organ Fight’, having sat on the shelves for several years, ‘Snake’ is only more charming thanks to the recording process, and ‘The Greys’, which is for us one of the best demos we received from the band at the time. They perfectly encompasses all that’s great about a demo – an idea, noted down roughly yet displaying the emotion and talent that now shines through Frightened Rabbit’s entire catalog.

It was pure coincidence that Glasgow’s The Twilight Sad started sending music to FatCat at almost exactly the same time. The Twilight Sad’s tracks on this tape are made all the more special due to the fact that this is not only also demo material, but that it will be completely new to the public. None of these tracks made it on to a release of any kind, and have remained sitting in the FatCat vaults. Their sense of songcraft here is self-evidently strong, *James*’s strong vocals over *Andy*’s musical arrangements sound as impressive then as they are today, with Mark Devine on drums, and Craig Orzel on bass providing a powerful backbone. A treat for Frightened Rabbit fans here will be The Twilight Sad’s cover of ‘Be Less Rude’ – re-titled later by the band as ‘Ravishing Rick Rude’.

Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
Folk noise band with the most beautiful melodies I’ve heard all year. One moment it is artfully and brutally distorted, the next, close and whispered.

Foals – Total Life Forever
An unexpected pleasure, given that I wasn’t a fan of their first record. This one has a depth that I didn’t think they had in them.

Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
This is my most played album of the year. Intricately produced and perfectly formed. ‘World Sick’ is the finest opening track I’ve heard in a long time

Clash Top 40 Albums of the Year …
17. Maps & Atlases – Perch Patchwork
24. Max Richter – infra

Drowned In Sound’s Albums of the Year 2010 …
29. Max Richter – infra

NME’s 75 Best Albums of 2010
50. Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks

The Fly’s Top Fifty Albums of 2010
17. Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks

Paste Magazine’s The 50 Best Albums of 2010
10. Frightened Rabit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks

NPR’s 5 Best Genre-Defying Albums of 2010
5. David Karsten Daniels & Fight The Big Bull – I Mean To Live Here Still

It’s with pleasure, then, that i can tell you about interviewer Benjamin Opipari and his site writersonprocess.com

Benjamin is interested in songwriters, and how songwriters go about their job. In this particular interview, David Davidson of Maps & Atlases speaks about topics including how poetry affects his songwriting, how a good long walk is the perfect way to write a Maps & Atlases song, and his penchant for leaving long voice mail messages for friends. Read it here

He also interviewed Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit. Topics such as inspirations, lyrics and routine are covered amongst many others. Read it here

No doubt, we’ll be posting more of Benjamin’s insightful interviews on our site in the future.

Maps & Atlases profile
Frightened Rabbit’s profile

People who pre-ordered the box set should receive it today, but some of the later pre-orders may not get it until tomorrow (23rd). The demand has been huge and we are doing out best to get the orders out as quickly and efficiently as possible.

The box set, which is limited to 500 copies, includes all three 7’‘ singles, complete with b-sides, taken from “The Winter Of Mixed Drinks”: Swim Until You Can't See Land, Nothing Like You and Living In Colour (the latter featuring hand-drawn artwork by singer-guitarist Scott Hutchison).

Moreover, the box-set boasts an exclusive fourth 7’‘ single from the album, The Loneliness & The Scream, which is backed with the band’s cover of Don’t Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee, with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn providing the Kiki Dee vocals.

The Loneliness & The Scream is a digital-only single, with a different b-side Things (Alternative Version) in the UK/Europe release. If you purchase the single on iTunes however, you will get the title track and both the digital and box-set b-sides!

Visit Frightened Rabbit’s profile page here

The box set, which is limited to 500 copies, includes all three 7’‘ singles, complete with b-sides, taken from “The Winter Of Mixed Drinks”: Swim Until You Can't See Land, Nothing Like You and Living In Colour (the latter featuring hand-drawn artwork by singer-guitarist Scott Hutchison).

Moreover, the box-set boasts an exclusive fourth 7’‘ single from the album, The Loneliness & The Scream, which is backed with the band’s cover of Don’t Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee, with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn providing the Kiki Dee vocals.

The Loneliness & The Scream is also to be released as a digital-only single, with a different b-side Things (Alternative Version) in the UK/Europe release. If you purchase the single on iTunes however, you will get the title track and both the digital and box-set b-sides! The digital single is scheduled for 22 November in UK/Europe, and 8 December in North America (US/Canada single is only “The Loneliness & The Scream” b/w “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”).

You can pre-order the box-set from our web store as well asthe single.

Please note: The postage price in the checkout is a guide price which states UK price of postage. Customers from the UK will have to pay just £2.50, £5.00 for Europe, and £8.50 for the rest of the world. North American customers: order from the UK site, as there will be no stock available directly from the USA webstore.

While in Los Angeles, the fellows will be stopping by fantastic indie vinyl-only shop Origami Vinyl for a very special instore on 12 October: the first 40 people who buy tickets at Origami for their 13 October Mayan Theatre show will get in to see the special acoustic performance (or, anyone holding previously-bought tickets can present them at the store to sign up).

Frightened Rabbit Fall USA Tour
Oct 7 – Showbox at the Market, Seattle WA
Oct 8 – Vogue Theatre, Vancouver British Columbia
Oct 9 – Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR
Oct 10 – The Fillmore, San Francisco CA
Oct 13 – Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Oct 14 – House of Blues, San Diego CA
Oct 15 – House of Blues, Anaheim CA
Oct 16 – Beauty Bar, Las Vegas NV
Oct 17 – Clubhouse, Tempe AZ
Oct 19 – Loft @ Palladium Ballroom, Dallas TX
Oct 20 – Stubbs, Austin TX
Oct 21 – Walters, Houston TX
Oct 22 – Tipitina’s, New Orleans LA
Oct 23 – Common Grounds, Gainesville FL
Oct 24 – The Social, Orlando FL
Oct 26 – 40 Watt Club, Athens GA
Oct 27 – Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte NC
Oct 28 – Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia PA
Oct 29 – Paradise, Boston MA
Oct 30 – Terminal 5, New York NY
Nov 1 – 930 Club, Washington DC
Nov 2 – Diesel, Pittsburgh PA
Nov 3 – Magic Stick, Detroit MI
Nov 4 – House of Blues, Chicago IL

To read the full postcard on Drowned In Sound, click here

And click here to visit Frightened Rabbit’s profile and check out their European & US tour dates.

The show is beautifully filmed and recorded and the whole site is set up very well, with the function to skip to a favourite song and a the video occupying a space on an entire frightened Rabbit themed page.

Click here to watch the show.

Frightened Rabbit will be on an exhaustive North American tour from October through to November, after which they will then tour Europe. Details of these dates can be found here.

The album will be launched on the 1st of October and will be available at the two gigs the festival are staging and from then on after. There will also be two singles released that will be free for download as from the 9th of September. The music will also be performed live, with the first gig taking place at the HMV Picture House in Edinburgh on the 1st of October, and the second gig at the O2 ABC in Glasgow on the 2nd of October. The exact line-up and dates are yet to be confirmed, so stay tuned to the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival Website, for more information.

This ambitious new project, managed by The Fruit Tree Foundation, is a new independent project in Scotland led by musicians Rod Jones and Emma Pollock, which sees some of Scotland's finest and most exciting artists from the indie and folk music scene come together to explore the relationship between creativity and mental health by writing and producing a brand new album; featuring unique pairings and one-off collaborations between some of our most intriguing song-writers.

The album also features Rod Jones (Idlewild), Jill O'Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop), Emma Pollock, Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston.

You can read the interview here