The Fiery Furnaces

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Brooklyn NY, United States

The Fiery Furnaces are an inventive and often challenging 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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  • samqwe

    I wonder if any of their other albums can top Widow City, I highly doubt it.

    last week
  • mhathaw1

    I LOVE THIS MUSIC

    last month
  • shya_man

    >tfw Matt turns 40 this year

    March 2012
  • kwokwokwo

    мило, романтика есть какая-то

    March 2012
  • uneternal-sleep

    rehearsing my choir

    March 2012
  • Cheezdude

    What should i check out after Blueberry Boat? I loved that shit.

    March 2012
  • ihateRBF

    The definition of pretentious is to put on more talent / intelligence than you possess. Eleanor can sing, Matt can play, and their songs do actually mean something. They do everything they set out to do. By definition - not pretentious.

    February 2012
  • Captain_Waffles

    I know that these guys sound nothing like of Montreal but for some reason I associate the two in my head and I feel like they're kind of similar.

    February 2012
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