"Clichés, dull lyrics, anything pedestrian – you’re in the sh^t" - DiS meets Frightened Rabbit
DiS chats to Frightened Rabbit and premieres a mini-documentary about the making of the new album, featuring brand new unheard material.»
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DiS chats to Frightened Rabbit and premieres a mini-documentary about the making of the new album, featuring brand new unheard material.»
...a collection of folky musings and ghostly field recordings. These are songs about apple groves and howling winds, of thatched roofs, bleating sheep and people greeting you in the street. The songs capture the essence of the Old Country, the sacred cow of emigrants: idealized by those who’ll never get it back, neglecting to recall the reasons why they left it all behind. And yet, Fogarty is a young man still.»
A successful, if unspectacular weekend, then, but the potential to build for next year is present in abundance. »
It’s difficult to see a place for this in anyone’s collection.»
That Truck’s been 'resurrected', then, is good news all round. It returns for its fifteenth edition under the fresh stewardship of Ralph Broadbent, he of Y Not Festival, who has replaced founders and long-term custodians Joe and Robin Bennett. »
Like a Michel Gondry movie, you’re drawn in by the gorgeous aesthetics, only to be consumed by the shadowy core. »
An Appointment… continues in the vein of The Waterboys' last album proper, The Book of Lightning, in providing intermittent moments of lucid quality amid oodles of overwrought, forgettable filler.»
A sketchy, difficult affair bogged down in melodrama. »