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Widow City (CD)

By: The Fiery Furnaces (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Widow City (CD) Album By The Fiery Furnaces (Artist)
1   Philadelphia Grand Jury, The
2   Duplexes Of the Dead
3   Automatic Husband
4   Ex-Guru
5   Clear Signal From Cairo
6   My Egyptian Grammar
7   Old Hag Is Sleeping, The
8   Japanese Slippers
9   Navy Nurse
10   Uncle Charlie
11   Right By Conquest
12   Restorative Beer
13   Wicker Whatnots
14   Cabaret Of the Seven Devils
15   Pricked In the Heart
16   Widow City
 

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Review

Spin (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "WIDOW CITY is the band's most raucously funky effort yet, full of twisty-turny jams with grooves lifted from Prince and guitar fuzz inspired by Led Zeppelin."
Entertainment Weekly (p.75) - "The lyrics hew closely to contemporary poetry's oblique emotionalism -- heart mingled with wit." -- Grade: A
Alternative Press (p.160) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he Furnaces are up to their usual tricks, making unexpected mash-ups of their own ideas....Even at their most adventurous, the melodies are undeniable."
The Wire (p.59) - "WIDOW CITY is endlessly enjoyable, yielding new detail every time you slip through its song mazes."

Title Note

The Fiery Furnaces: Eleanor Friedberger (vocals); Matthew Friedberger (Mellotron); Robert D'amico (drums).

Brother and sister act Fiery Furnaces continued to wow critics and consumers alike with their thoroughly original take on literate pop with WIDOW CITY, their fifth overall full-length and Thrill Jockey debut. With lyrics supposedly derived from a Ouija board, and also collected from women's magazines from the early '70s, their trademark skewed wordplay is on full display here, as singer Eleanor Friedberger wrings out every word like vintage Patti Smith. Brother Matthew Friedberger delivers his catchiest, most McCartney-esque set of tunes, and plays all the instruments (sans drums) himself. This mostly consists of the Chamberlin, an old organ akin to a Mellotron or Optigon, whose keys activate sampled tape loops. The results sound like sophisticated, modern pop as imagined by an early-20th century steam calliope band--albeit one with a ridiculously tight rhythm section. Credit drummer Paul D'Amico for this tightness as his years of touring with the Friedbergers have yielded them their most cohesive, energetic record yet. Without sacrificing any of their trademark oddities or experimentalism, the Fiery Furnaces of WIDOW CITY sound startlingly mature, confident, and for the first time, like a full band.

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