AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The absolutely brilliant Frightened Rabbit are to release an album of mostly acoustic live versions of (some) songs from their astounding album The Midnight Organ Fight from earlier this year, set for release on October the 21st in the States and sometime in April for the UK. The recordings come from a gig at Captain’s Rest, Glasgow on July 30th this year, with a guest appearance from FatCat label mates The Twilight Sad’s James Graham on ‘Keep Yourself Warm’.

If the Pure Groove in-store they played on Moday is anything to go by, just… oh my god, oh my god.

Tracklisting for Liver! Lung! FR!:
1) The Modern Leper
2) I Feel Better
3) Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
4) Fast Blood
5) Old Old Fashioned
6) The Twist
7) Head Rolls Off
8) My Backwards Walk
9) Keep Yourself Warm
10) Poke
11) Floating in the Forth
12) Who’d You Kill Now?

Carl Newman of The New Pornographers is nearing completion of his second solo album (under the initialed A.C. Newman name), which is set for a January release. His debut The Slow Wonder was a slice of guitar pop that had some wonderfully catchy songs, not unlike the Pornos, or even his older band Zumpano.

Newman on the as-yet untitled album: “My friend John Wurster, who drums with Superchunk and the Mountain Goats, did most of the drumming,” he says. “A singer named Nicole Atkins did a lot of singing on it. She’s a really killer singer; she kind of reminds me of a cross between Mama Cass and the Shangri-La’s.”