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Tag Archives: Fiery Furnaces
The Fiery Furnaces Visit the Department of Motor Vehicles
CLERK Can I help the next person in line? ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER (approaches, hands clerk a document) I’m plowing through a stir fry like it’s the last one ever Tied to my porch with chicken wire and clever When Vargas dips his fingers into my sticky rice And up floats a letter from the DMV, very [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Posted in Experiment, Reviews Also tagged Eleanor Friedberger, I'm Going Away, Matthew Friedberger 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Appreciations, News Also tagged Burl Ives, Eleanor Friedberger, Elizabeth Cotten, I'm Going Away, Matthew Friedberger, Thrill Jockey 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Concerts Also tagged Annie, Desdemona, Eleanor Friedberger, Enon, Mates of State, Matthew Friedberger, Radio 4, Richard Swift, Stellastarr, The Stills, The Walkmen, VHS or Beta, We Are Scientists Leave a comment
Take Me Round Again: The Friedbergers Cover the Friedbergers