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Deaf Description: The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away

By Todd | Published: May 27, 2009
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

By Todd | Published: April 29, 2009
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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