Tag: Arrangements

Release Date: April 14, 2008 Label: Fat Cat Records This may well be the most difficult album review I’ve ever written. Not because the music is hard to appraise (I’ll tell you straightaway, The Midnight Organ Fight is a brilliant album), but because of how life can sometimes imitate art. When I started writing this, Scott … Continue reading Album Review: Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight

Release Date: September 16, 2016 Label: Play It Again Sam Most reviews accompanying Keaton Henson's recent album, Kindly Now, draw attention to his chronic anxiety and reclusive persona. And by my referencing those references, I've now done the same in my review. Damn it. That wasn't my intention. Including those details in press releases and … Continue reading Album Review: Keaton Henson – Kindly Now

Release Date: February 24, 2017 Label: yk Records For those of you who are unfamiliar, Fort Collins is a mid-sized college town about an hour north of the Denver/Boulder nexus. Growing up here, the music scene was dominated by bluegrass and jam bands. That's not to say there weren't pockets of other music, just that … Continue reading Album Review: Skyway Man – Seen Comin’ from a Mighty Eye

Release Date: February 26, 2016 Label: Moshi Moshi Records Every year, when the year-end best-of lists come out, I make a good-faith effort to give each of the represented albums a good listen. Sometimes I agree with critics' assessments, many times I don't. Most often, the lists converge around some inexplicable trend sweeping the indie … Continue reading Album Review: Meilyr Jones – 2013