“It might be that Frightened Rabbit are a band for old souls, those who saw before their time something magnificent or terrible flashing in the headlights. If you’ve heard a wall of guitars, a voice croon of woah-oh-oh-oh-ohhhh, a drumroll like a wrestle, maybe you’ve felt the same.”
The Scottish band Frightened Rabbit, led by the late Scott Hutchison, has long been known for the deep emotional connection its music makes with avid listeners. Edited by Aaron Kent and Maria Sledmere, "The Last Song: Words for Frightened Rabbit" compile poems that serve as tributes to and corollaries of cherished band lyrics.
The book captures the indelible impact that Hutchison's lyrics have had, displaying the resonance through art inspired by Frightened Rabbit songs. Among the highlights were Emma Whitelaw's "It's got lots to do with magnets and the pull of the moon"; M McCorquodale's "Glasgae Blessin'"; Geraint Ellis's "Odd socks"; Carl Burkitt's "10/05/18"; and Charlie Rose Evans's "Home Videos."
“may red sandstone tenements
bear the weight of yae
in yer time o’need
an offer o’ a Glasgae kiss
but no the kind you mean
it might no leave you bleedin’
but gie it a try
this time wae feelin’."
~M McCorquodale, “Glasgae Blessin’”
This collection is a tribute to the vulnerability and acknowledgment that this powerful band inspires ... and carries on in Hutchison's absence.
“Our last suppers aren’t laid to prove that we’re holy
or that laughing yourself to death isn’t a choice to console me,
only that odd socks rolled together seem a little less lonely.”
~Geraint Ellis, “Odd socks”
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