“The Modern Leper” by Frightened Rabbit

"The Modern Leper" comes from The Midnight Organ Fight, the second album by Scottish indie rockers Frightened Rabbit, released in April 2008 on the independent Fat Cat Records. Scott Hutchison wrote the words and shared the music credit with Grant Hutchison and Billy Kennedy, and the record it lives on was made during 2007, split between Glasgow and a studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

That record is a breakup album, and Hutchison himself called it far more intense than the band's debut, Sing the Greys; once it was finished, he needed about a month before he could bear to hear it. Critics fell hard for its candid, bruised writing and fervent delivery, and the album kept turning up on year-end and decade-end lists long after its release.

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