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The Fiery Furnaces are an inventive and often challenging experimental rock group from Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Oak Park, Illinois — a suburb of Chicago — they consist of the brother and sister team of Matthew Friedberger and Eleanor Friedberger, and are currently joined by Jason Loewenstein (Sebadoh), BOB D’AMICO and Michael Goodman when playing live on tour.

The Fiery Furnaces signed with the Rough Trade Records music label in 2002, and recorded their debut album in the same year.

Gallowsbird’s Bark, released in the autumn of 2003, garnered critical praise for its clever wordplay and original songwriting.

Anybody who thought they had the band pinned at that point was quickly proven wrong with the 2004 release Blueberry Boat, a rock-operatic album whose track lengths were often six minutes long or longer.
While some critics adored the album for its vast complexity, others found it all a little too overwhelming.

After releasing EP in 2005 (considered a full-length album because of its 41 minute play time, but is “officially” an EP) the band then released two further albums - Rehearsing My Choir (2005), a radio-dramaesque concept album about the Friedbergers’ Greek grandmother; and Bitter Tea (2006), which is a comparably more conventional album built on still-bent song structures, but with more pop-oriented stylings.

In October 2007 the band released their fifth full-length album, Widow City.

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Bamlaflamme wrote:
4 hours ago

When Matt dissed Radiohead, I literally forgot Bitter Tea and Blueberry Boat ever existed. I hate that I'm forced to be ironic all the time.

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Pinkfloydbeck wrote:
yesterday morning

Not hate! I was going to look into them too. It's just the lead singer of the band is a pretentious asshole, whether he was joking or not.

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greene1994 wrote:
Tuesday evening

i dont know why dont you ask matt

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lukaseatscereal wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

Why there gotsta be so much hate and judging in the music someone listens to?!

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bananademon wrote:
Tuesday morning

I love this band. :'D

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dubccc wrote:
Tuesday morning

i'm pretty live and let live when it comes to music, matthew friedberger should be the same.

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sunlandic_cl19 wrote:
Tuesday morning

basically, pitchfork blew everything out of proportion. whenever someone says anything bad about ANYTHING, it's taken way too seriously and people get wayyyyyy too defensive (we're all guilty of this, myself included.) people can have their own opinions, and america is a country where we're free to express them whenever we so choose. how can you even really defend a band anyways? people get usage out of bands on a personal level.

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Pinkfloydbeck wrote:
Tuesday morning

No it's not. That's what happened! Tell me in specific, not just "Your god, Beck, the scientologist, was insulted by an awesome indie badass", what exactly happened then?

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sunlandic_cl19 wrote:
Tuesday morning

everything matthew "said" was hypothetical actually

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Pinkfloydbeck wrote:
Monday evening

I'm going to be serious here now. Yes, I agree, Radiohead fanatics piss me off too sometimes. Radiohead's good, but they're certainly not one of the best bands ever. But here are the facts: this guy from the Fiery Furnaces insulted another band when he heard something untruthful about them. Then, when he finds out he was mistaken, he was the wrong one there, he does not relinquish and apologize, or even let it go; he decides to keep it up, even after the band never reacted. And bring another musician that had never done him any harm in there for no reason. Those are the facts. Any objections?

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theansweris42x wrote:
Monday evening

this whole beef is so, so stupid. all three involved parties just sound like they're going "derp derp derp" ... though some are derping louder than others.

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cellowiz22 wrote:
Monday morning

These Radiohead henchmen are as bitter as Bitter Tea.

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sunlandic_cl19 wrote:
Monday morning

LOL @ ALL OF THIS

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ripchord wrote:
Monday morning

"But I certainly won't pay for it." yeah! you show 'em, pinkfloyd!

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ripchord wrote:
Monday morning

you do know there are links to your profiles so that people can click and look at them, right?

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Pinkfloydbeck wrote:
Monday morning

And, to Pointro, I may listen to it. But I certainly won't pay for it.

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Pinkfloydbeck wrote:
Monday morning

lol @ ripchord for going through the people who insult this band's last.fms, finding bands to make fun of them for, and then doing it on the internet. LMAO. And usually when someone writes something sarcastic with an "lol", it's thrown in there only to show off that one doesn't care about the insult thrown at them, but I literally laughed out loud at the "nice name, douche" line.

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ripchord wrote:
Monday morning

"Holy crap this guy is literally retarded. You all like this band ironically right?" that's why you listen to death cab, right?

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ripchord wrote:
Monday morning

lol @ radiohead fans calling anything pretentious. lol even harder @ at the irony of Pinkfloydbeck (nice name, douche) getting so worked up about something and then telling people who don't give a crap about what people say on the internet they need to give a life. lastly, lol @ people acting like there are "sides" in this "feud." go sit in your car and put "everybody hurts" on repeat.

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kaipaan wrote:
Monday morning

lol @ super-defensive radiohead fanboys.

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