Winter Women | Holy Ghost Language School (Reissue)

Matthew Friedberger is one half of the brother and sister duo The Fiery Furnaces. This is Matt's first solo record and was originally released in 2006 by 859 Recordings. Thrill Jockey is proud to be bringing this double album back to life in a new package with updated artwork!

The first disc, Winter Women, clocking in at one hour, showcases Friedberger's strength as a songwriter, and features some of the most accessible pop songs he's ever written, including the infectious "Ruth versus Richard" and the 60s-tinged "Up the River". Women is intended to be a summer record, full of memorable, catchy and un-ironic pop songs. The second disc, Holy Ghost Language School, is more experimental - a 46 minute sonic novel with the requisite backwards guitars and strange samples which makes Matt's work so original. It veers closer to some of the Furnaces' more experimental outings, but it's not outright noise, the album as a whole is bound by a strange sense of structure. Matt wrote and arranged all the music, played all the instruments (except for some drumming from John McEntire from Tortoise on a few tracks), and sings all the songs.