This firmly identifies the narrator as quite a poor individual-someone suffering not only from poverty but also something else we’ll discuss later. 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 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.
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