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- Last Summer plays as a series of glimpses into Friedberger’s past summer in New York City. Teeming with nostalgia, Friedberger is inviting listeners on a dreamy journey to her past. Combining the experimental pop of The Fiery Furnaces with Friedberger’s soaring vocals, Last Summer is an enchanting, intimate look into a season in the city.
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Last Summer is the first solo album released by American indie pop musician Eleanor Friedberger, most notable for being the vocalist in the band The Fiery Furnaces with her brother Matthew Friedberger. The album was released on 12 July 2011 on the Merge Records record label.
Jul 12, 2011 · The Fiery Furnaces singer's solo debut feels like a throwback to idiosyncratic, solidly crafted singer-songwriter LPs from the 1970s.
- Joshua Love
Sep 20, 2011 · New York-based Eleanor Friedberger has been gaining acclaim for her work in the Fiery Furnaces with her brother Matthew for years. Now she’s struck out on her own with her first solo recording, Last Summer, which is due for release on November 7th on Merge Records. And though she has no plans to leave the Furnaces behind, Friedberger is ...
Jul 11, 2011 · Compared to most of the band’s oeuvre, Last Summer is slim and focused, and surprisingly short on frenetic loopiness. It still retains many of the Fiery Furnaces’ signature affectations, cataloguing a summer’s worth of weird sights, offhand asides, and subway trips to Coney Island, but feels about three tons lighter than brother Matthew ...
Last Summer is a travel album, and thanks to Friedberger’s talents it’s an evocative one. The trippy “Inn of the Seventh Ray” chronicles a relationship via a Topanga canyon hotspot, while songs like “Scenes from Bensonhurst” and the funky “Roosevelt Island” paint a wide-eyed lover’s view of New York City as seen from the outside.
Eleanor Friedberger keeps it nice and breezy on her first solo album, Last Summer. Taking a step away from the top-heavy production style and high-concept drama of the Fiery Furnaces sound, she’s crafted a pretty neat and mostly gratifying summer album — a summer stoop album, to be exact.
The conceit here is less esoteric. Last Summer finds Friedberger revisiting her "frame of mind" when she moved to New York a decade ago.
