![]() To be laid to rest in the wake of the faded town I won’t die in the bony arms of the state Starkly accompanied by finger-picked acoustic guitar, Hutchinson croons at nearly the top of his tessitura, setting the scene for the song to come:įrom the car crying babies and switchblade daysĪnd the thought of the thick, white skull on the ground With strikingly similar instrumentation to the aforementioned “Poke,” bandleader Scott Hutchinson and the rest of the Scottish band are right in their indie-folk wheelhouse. I’m sure you already are assuming how the song sounds purely based on the title, and you probably are not far off. However, with the release of their 2016 record Painting of a Panic Attack, both of those titles have been awarded to a new song-the album closer “Die Like a Rich Boy.Û He definitely improved as he went on, but there's something charming about youthful arrogance, and this fits the bill.Long-time readers of “Another Kind of Currency” may recall a column I wrote my freshman year about Frightened Rabbit’s “Poke,” which I always considered not only one of their most depressing songs (saying something if you know FR’s catalog), but also one of the most depressing songs ever. It's a nice reminder of the younger Scott, who had that big of youthful hubris about his work. It's always stuck with me.Īnd maybe a bit of an unconventional answer but "It's Christmas So We'll Stop." I remember Scott describing it as a long and over blown song that he wrote when he was young and full of himself and I love that. And you can tell me all about what you did today." Is such a heat breaking lyric. Scott described YIW as the song "waving goodbye" as the album drifts off and thats perfect. ![]() ![]() "What if I'm never thrown that rope.and what if this tear in my side just pours and pours and pours." The fact that it's just this quiet little song in the quiet corner of their most glossed over album speaks to me. I hardly see it mentioned but "Yes, I would" is another amazing one. ![]() Every lyric is beautiful but "Take your life.give it a shake.gather up your loose change" is maybe the best, funniest, most practical advice anyone feeling sorrowful can get. And to have the optimism in that song, which is maybe the most hopeful on MOF, be twisted by Scotts passing is a true shame. no other musician I can think of was or has been able to truly take these types of situations and flawlessly translate them into words and sounds that not only pull at your heart, but make you feel less alone.įloating in the Forth was the song that stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it. it's probably pretty clear how the songs relate to that situation. at that point I'd been seeing him for about 2 and a half years and was really struggling with the fact that I got to see him maybe 3 or 4 times a year, if that, and was already heavily depressed due to the absolute shit state of the world due to the pandemic. I was in a crumbling long distance relationship with my first real, serious boyfriend(I'm a gay male with unsupportive parents, so I'm not even out to them yet, making relationships in general difficult). I've been a fan of the band since about a year and a half before Scott's passing, but really got a deep connection with the music around March/April of last year.
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