"The Modern Leper" is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Don't really like the album but I'll be listening in the wake of the tragic news. Can't imagine how devastating this is for fans who've relied on the music as a lifeline.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's a tough hit that basically hits everyone saying 'mental health is an omnipresent thing and feeling like you're doing well and moving past it is a feeling rooted only in a time - these things can always come back and put us right back where we started'

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

What???? I just saw the news about this. I'm utterly shocked and devastated. I can't believe this. I just can't.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I threw up as soon as I heard the news, I just saw the band live a month or so ago in NYC and what a great show it was. Rest in Peace Scott, the world lost a great and honest man.

I'm having such a hard time accepting it, this and Winter of Mixed Drinks are probably the most important albums of my adult life
It's also really hard to not feel betrayed by how it ended, I just feel so angry and drained

Album Rating: 5.0

gonna revisit this band's discog this whole weekend

Album Rating: 5.0

Fuck depression with a rusty knife. This one hurts.

Album Rating: 5.0

in time I’ll be able to take solace in the fact that scott obviously had a profound effect on so many people. I’ll take great pleasure in listening to head rolls off, which singlehandedly helped me to cope with fear of death. whether he knew it or not he did a lot of good for a lot of people.



but right now I can only feel devastated that it ended for him this way, that someone who tried to instil so much hope in people suffering from depression was unable to instil it in himself.

Yeah honestly I don't think I'll be able to listen to any of his music for a while

Album Rating: 5.0

MOTHEFUCKING RIP



God this is hitting me hard. This guy wrote some of the most cathartic, amazing songs ever made.



Fast Blood, My Backwards Walk, Keep Yourself Warm, The Lonlienss and the Scream.





FUCK

Album Rating: 5.0

I saw them in Minneapolis right after Prince died. Scot did a solo acoustic over of Purple Rain, and it motherfucking dug all of the feels out of my soul

Album Rating: 3.5

Frightened Rabbit never meant as much to me as they do to others, but listening to The Modern Leper, hearing Scott sing, "i am ill, but i'm not dead"...



sorry, there's something in my eye



RIP

Album Rating: 5.0

Goddamn this sucks

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah modern leper makes me feel like shit



as do most of his lyrics



the owl john song "a good reason to grow old" hurts right now too

Album Rating: 4.0

at least we can remember him by the music

Album Rating: 5.0

Midnight Organ Fight was arguably one of my most listened to records in college almost a decade ago. I built close relationships with those songs.



I put Poke on a mix cd I made for an ex.



Keep Yourself Warm used to comfort me at night when I was depressed and alone but knew it would be worth the wait of being lonely to find someone in the future who was truly meant for me instead of succumbing to one night stands and meaningless sex.



Very few bands have captured the way my heart has felt like Frightened Rabbit. Losing anyone due to depression and suicide is heartbreaking. I know Scott has left a mark on me for the rest of my life.

Album Rating: 5.0

Listening to this now and having a lil cry

Album Rating: 4.5

Floating In The Forth is near impossible to listen to.

never listened to this band but am about to check. stalked his twitter and got real sad

"It's also really hard to not feel betrayed by how it ended, I just feel so angry and drained."

It doesn't work like that, though. Depression is its own kind of insanity. It dims your mind. The thoughts that would give you hope are no longer available to you. The clear ways forward just become invisible. Scott didn't refute any of the hope that he advocated for. He didn't betray the warmth and understanding that he gave others. I doubt he went into his death with any of that in mind. He died of an illness. And while he was fighting that illness he touched and changed many people in his struggle. Every major episode is a fight with death, and most every single one you end up living through, and the best possible outcome is that you use those scars to make other lives better and maybe even your own. That's what Scott did. It only takes one episode though to capsize all of that. Sometimes it's hard to tell just how inevitable that fateful episode is.

I find it unfair to blame Scott, or many of the people who have shared his fate, for that. His death was likely something largely out of his control in the end. What he gave us while he was alive is beautiful. That's something to celebrate, and to share with others.