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The Fiery Furnaces are an American indie rock band, formed in 2000 in Brooklyn, New York. [1] The band's primary members are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger. The siblings are originally from Oak Park, Illinois, a near-western suburb of Chicago. They are known for their ambitious, highly conceptual releases, which have frequently divided ...
Out of the Fiery Furnace is a seven-part documentary series [1] [2] which was completed for ABC television in Australia in 1983. The series traces the discovery and use of metals, minerals, and energy resources through time and was shown in over twenty countries. [3]
Blueberry Boat is the second album by American indie rock band The Fiery Furnaces. It was released on July 13, 2004, just over ten months following their debut album, Gallowsbird's Bark. Blueberry Boat polarized music critics due to its long, complex songs and esoteric lyrics.
Jul 13, 2004 · Yet nothing on Gallowsbird's Bark hints at the ambition of The Fiery Furnaces' second album, the 76-minute Blueberry Boat. The 10-minute opener, "Quay Cur", sets the stage: After a...
- Chris Dahlen
- Bitter Tea
- Remember
- I’m Going Away
- Ep
- Widow City
- Rehearsing My Choir
- Gallowsbird’S Bark
- Blueberry Boat
My notes on Bitter Tea include the following: “their difficult album, their David Lynch movie.” Now as at the time of release, Tea confounds so thoroughly that drawing a thematic bead beyond, say, “an exceptional, lovesick EP buried within an impenetrable, drug-damaged LP” is next to impossible. It’s like sitting down to a delicious bowl of Cream O...
The Fiery Furnaces’ approach to live performance was to transform a generous catalog into a strenuous, Naked Lunch-esque exercise, squishing a handful of bars and verses from several songs together, often sacrificing entrenched melodies and cadences and erecting bizarre new creations in the process. Depending on the listener’s temperament — or, pos...
An LP-length “Dear John” letter if there ever was one, I’m Going Away wears its dolor with a characteristic schizophrenia. This means that “Drive To Dallas” breaks up its teary downbeat guide with psychedelic guitar pyro and plaints that verge on mania, and that there are a pair of ecstatic barnburners about partying with a girl named “Charmaine Ch...
A collection of singles and compilation cuts, EP arrives at this point in the countdown almost by default; for all their electrifying zest, no cohesive theme unites these 10 nuggets, and it’s impossible to reconcile them with what’s included on the proper LPs. The ironically autumnal “Here Comes The Summer” is bled, curiously, into the bizarre “Eve...
Widow City is a rock record with synthesizer assists that is very loosely about a libertine who killed (or wants to kill) a loathsome toad of a husband and elope with her girlfriend; the telenovela-esque narrative is unclear in the way that the through line of the Aeon Flux animated series is fuzzy. None of which matters when the result is this ric...
The Grandmother Album, as it is colloquially known, clocks in at about an hour. This is significant. Gallowsbird’s Bark rang up at a respectable 46 minutes and change, pushing the envelope of sonic propriety just slightly; Blueberry Boat ballooned out to 76 minutes but was so captivatingly crackers that nobody noticed. Rehearsing My Choir exists in...
For anyone arriving at Gallowsbird’s Bark after listening to the band’s later records, the raw, primal punch of this debut may come as a shock. Not fully comfortable (as yet) with the notion of the studio-as-instrument, Eleanor and Matthew leaned hard on a whoa-fi, juke-joint spontaneity; spiced with distorted guitar and whimsical keybs, almost eve...
The Fiery Furnaces, at their most transcendent, come across as at least 94 percent disengaged from the here and now. Sonically, narratively, and personally, the ideal versions of Matthew and Eleanor are space aliens or time travelers in self-denial: maybe The Coneheads, the titular family from the first Brady Bunch Movie, or “Unfrozen Caveman Lawye...
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Out of the Fiery Furnace is a seven-part documentary series which was completed for ABC television in Australia in 1985. The series traces the discovery and use of metals, minerals, and energy resources through time and was shown in over twenty countries.
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Jul 22, 2009 · The Fiery Furnaces Announce Tour Dates With Fred Armisen, Share “The Fortune Teller’s Revenge”: Listen. By Allison Hussey.
