The Fiery Furnaces

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Restless sonic chameleons the Fiery Furnaces revolve around the brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, whose prickly childhood relationship and musical family set the stage for their playful, unpredictable music. The Friedbergers' grandmother was a musician and choir director at a Greek Orthodox church near the family's home in Oak Park, IL; their mother, who had a penchant for Gilbert & Sullivan, played piano and guitar and sang; and throughout school, Matthew played standup bass. While the Friedbergers weren't the closest of siblings gro...[more]

 

 

The amazing follow-up to their beloved, critically acclaimed debut, Gallowsbird's Bark. Matthew Friedberger, one half of the brother-sister folk-pop duo, describes Blueberry Boat as sounding like "a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant pit orchestra." But better. A lot better. Here the Furnaces give us 74 minutes of charming, catchy, clunky, sprawling, saloon-piano-heavy, pop-psych mini-epics, some clocking in at eight minutes. "After making one of last year's best albums -- the blues-folk-rock amalgam    [ read more ]

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#17 Seller of 2005! After the success of 2005's critically acclaimed Blueberry Boat, these two are out to take over the world. While touring with bands like Wilco, Franz Ferdinand, The Shins, and The Hidden Cameras some how they managed put together 10 new tracks. And Here it is 10 new & unreleased tracks from one of the biggest indie success stories of 2004, The Fiery Furnaces. "Single Again is a fab slab of catchiness that combines a great storyline with jaunty synth squelches and choppy guitars t   [ read more ]

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#41 Seller of 2005! The Fiery Furnaces' fourth US release, Rehearsing My Choir is based, with liberal heaps of poetic license, around the recollections of Matt and Eleanor Friedberger's grandmother, 83-year-old Olga Sarantos. As Eleanor and Mrs. Sarantos trade off on vocals, signaling quick shifts in time and perspective, the music barrels along at their heels, the Furnaces changing up instruments and arrangements to match the action. As much musical theater as concept album, the story ar   [ read more ]

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Bitter Tea is the latest installment from the Brooklyn based Fiery Furnaces. The multi-instrumental brother and sister duo continue with their eclectic backdrop of experimental yet undeniably catchy melodies that set the stage perfectly for Eleanor's distinct vocals. Their diversity has garnered them a wide range of comparisons from The Who to The Band-meets-Syd Barrett... if that's any implication. [ read more ]

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This brother-sister duo balance melody, originality, and a seemingly endless arsenal of instrumental ideas. Their songs often transcend categories, redefining the pop song through rapidly changing tempos and inventive sound selections. This record, their first on Thrill Jockey, features some of the finest, catchiest Furnace compositions to date. Compelling, beautiful, strange, dense, and magical, Widow City is musical terrain entirely of the duo's making.

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This double CD live album features 51 tracks spanning the band's entire catalog and was recorded over the past three years of constant touring. CD is limited to 9,000 copies and comes in a deluxe 6-panel digipack with coupon to download an exclusive bonus track.

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CD presented in a four panel mini-LP style jacket. I'm Going Away is The Fiery Furnaces' eighth album. All rock music is a sort of dramatic music. And since the times are tough, it makes sense to have that "drama" be something more like a version of Taxi than something like a version of Titanic. We like Taxi better than Titanic, anyway. So we hope that some of the songs on this record can be used as theme songs to folks' own personal versions of Taxi. Because - idea   [ read more ]

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This new single features "Single Again," plus the unreleased "Evergreen." SoundsXP said, "These tracks are burned into my internal jukebox already...'Single Again' ...starts with fat synth tones that sound like Gary Numan's 'Cars' before it cartwheels off on happy piano trill and climaxes in a fat, poppy chorus. The extra track show the depth of their talent. 'Evergreen' sounds like one of the most complex, accomplished things they've written, a '70s New Wave song that someone else (Patti Smith?) could sin   [ read more ]

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While the Fiery Furnaces arrived in a music scene teeming with bands formed by brothers and sisters (or, at least, by people who claim to be) and bands from New York, on their debut album, Gallowsbird's Bark, this brother-and-sister-led group from New York manages to avoid the pitfalls that those superficial similarities suggest. It's true that garage rock and post-punk form the foundations of the band's style, but the Fiery Furnaces' loose-limbed music also incorporates folk, blues, an   [ read more ]

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While the Fiery Furnaces arrived in a music scene teeming with bands formed by brothers and sisters (or, at least, by people who claim to be) and bands from New York, on their debut album, Gallowsbird's Bark, this brother-and-sister-led group from New York manages to avoid the pitfalls that those superficial similarities suggest. It's true that garage rock and post-punk form the foundations of the band's style, but the Fiery Furnaces' loose-limbed music also incorporates folk, blues, an   [ read more ]

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