I’ve had the stuff on repeat for a few days. Know some won’t be able to listen for a while, but i guess for others it’s a way to connect with him and the band. The first two records are quite personal for me, so a bit tough to hear them, really, but i’ve found some of the EP and singles b-sides a bit easier to digest as there’s a lot of stuff i’d not heard before.
One of my good pals is from Glasgow. Bit older than me and loves his music. Every now and then we’ll get a crate of beer and hide out in his spare room listening to records, and lots of the bands we’ve bonded over down the years have been Scottish artists. He introduced me to The Pastels, i introduced him to the Twilight Sad. He showed me the Vaselines or Ivor Cutler, me him Ballboy or Copy Haho.
Anyway, bit of a ramble i know, but Frightened Rabbit were one of the bands who’d bring us together. Hearing a Scottish vocalist sing in his own accent made him beam, or reading an interview where someone would namecheck a Scottish artist he loved twenty-five or thirty years ago, or making the links between old folk and new artists blew his mind. That sort of identity in music’s important, i think.
