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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.
Jul 11, 2011 · “Inn of the Seventh Ray,” with its endless pleading chorus (“You promised to take me to the inn of the seventh ray”) strikes just the right mix of whininess and pretension to qualify as one of the most annoying tracks this year.
Sep 20, 2011 · Firey Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger's debut solo album Last Summer is due for release in November, so Erin Lyndal Martin spoke to her about how it came together
Last Summer will surely become history's only pop album to "imagine Christopher Walken as a dancer named Ronnie", spin a yarn about picking up used bicycle parts on Coney Island, and drop a...
Jul 11, 2011 · It is surprising, then, that Eleanor Friedberger’s first solo album, Last Summer, is so direct and straightforward. There’s an organic, personal vibe to these songs, couched even as they are in the rackety rhythms and off-kilter synths of Fiery Furnaces’ idiom.
“Inn of the Seventh Ray,” curiously named after a California restaurant, explores Friedberger’s darker side, taking a psychedelic approach with its mysterious and sluggish pace, while ...
Nov 15, 2011 · Eleanor Friedberger, whose drawling soulful vocals you may recognise from when she was one half of The Fiery Furnaces with her brother, Matthew, has just released her first debut album, Last Summer.
