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The Fiery Furnaces: I’m Going Away (the not-fake review)

The Fiery Furnaces – “Drive To Dallas” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from I’m Going Away) When I first heard about the Fiery Furnaces’ I’m Going Away, I may have prematurely flipped my lid, as bloggers are wont to do. I presaged the album with a hefty serving of red herrings left by [...]
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Deaf Description: The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away

I’ve already let my nerd flag fly high when I trumpeted the announcement of the upcoming Fiery Furnaces record, but what I didn’t tell you at the time (because it wasn’t announced until the following week) was that the siblings Friedberger were asking their fans to submit “deaf descriptions” of the new album. That is, [...]
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I’m Going Away: New Fiery Furnaces album gets me all sorts of excited

While Scotter harbors his inexplicable blog-crush for the shrill Joanna Newsom, there’s still no band that gets me quite as hot and bothered as the inimitable Fiery Furnaces. I guess where he finds sustenance in the pomp and flutter of courtly Elizabethan balladry, my heart is tickled by winding Germanic meta-narratives filled with labrynthine plot [...]
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Desdemona Days 2 & 3 – You’re here and I’m there

As the weekend wore on, Sawyer Point began to feel more and more like a real festival: short people tossing around Frisbees, captain’s chairs staked out in the shade, leftover Bonnaroo hippies prancing about with flower garlands, topless dudes.  But to give a true bird’s eye account of the events would be, of course, a [...]
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