I'm Going Away with The Fiery Furnaces

ok i actually love this band even more now, they have taken ilx's no line on the horizon project to the next fucken level

now it is up to the fans to oblige

i agree, that is pretty damn cool thing to do.

Dear Fiery Furnaces,

I think it will sound like dancehall, gabba and dubstep.

Regards,

why would you want to hear fiery furnaces doing a dancehall, gabba, dubstep album

why would you make a joke about the fiery furnaces doing something out of character

when is this going to leak?

http://stereogum.com/mp3/The%20Fiery%20Furnaces%20-%20The%20End%20Is%20Near.mp3

^this is a legal link afaik

the song is really nice, but more than anything i'm just glad it's normal. i love the FF and all their weirdnesses, but i just want to hear a 12-track LP of short, straightforward songs from them.

This band is a headache for me to listen to, which is weird because I totally adore things like the last Of Montreal album which is a similar idea.

i'm just glad it's normal.

I totally agree with this. My favorite moments from them are their poppy, "contained" tracks like "Tropical Ice-Land" and "Evergreen" and "Here Comes the Summer."

"Bands Whose First Album Is Their Best has strangely not been a thread yet."

i'm a furnaces stan but i've gotta concur here.

i love the FF and all their weirdnesses, but i just want to hear a 12-track LP of short, straightforward songs from them.

The album you're looking for is called Widow City, and was as simple and straightforward as this band can get while still being fucken awesome.

not disagreeing, really, but it's an hour long. gallowsbird's bark, on the other hand, is 46 minutes.

(obv in reality im not going to care too much how long it is...if it's good it shouldnt matter. but as long as i dont have it to listen to yet, a guy can dream)

From what I've heard this whole record is super-poppy and straightforward, which is exciting.

a certain twitter reviewer has already heard it, so i't shouldnt be long til it becomes, er, more widely available

Wow, is Widow City really their "straightforward" album? Because it's all over the place--in a great way--and is almost exhaustingly long. I absolutely love everything through "Restorative Beer" but by then I'm pretty spent. All this time later I've still not ever been too swayed by the last four tracks.

new song is a nice pop tune, but the production is kinda boringly minimal.

A thread for free-floating hatred of "Away We Go" a.k.a. the Dave Eggers movie

"The album you're looking for is called Widow City, and was as simple and straightforward as this band can get while still being fucken awesome."

not quite.

i mean, i like widow city, but yeah, it's too much somehow. i think in my case it's all down to needing a break from the whole furnaces/enterprise aesthetic or something. too much, too much. i'm glad they took two years off from releasing studio albums, really. the new track is okay.

that said "pricked in the heart" is one of my fave pop songs ever.

down to the tunnel
down to the leaky, leaky tunnel

oh that widow city and its inscrutable opening track

This leaked BTW but i think its just a webrip

(sounds more than fine to these ears though)

Sounding very fine to these ears too. Haven't finished listening to it yet, but it's already one of my favourite FF record yet. It's like the Fiery Furnaces EP gone LP.

"drive to dallas" is gorgeous

psyched but content to wait a few weeks. i almost never say that about bands i like.

It's like the Fiery Furnaces EP gone LP.

That's what I've been waiting for!

more accessible,poppy and simple? - yes
better than previous records? - not sure
conclusuion? not bad, not so great either - somewhere in between, with a slight tendency towards "good" in the scale.

that's about where i am too, but i'm hoping it'll grow on me

same here

so. so exited about this, listening now!

yeah i almost posted abt it earlier..im a little bored? by it

idk i agree driving to dallas is so good

*excited

i wish the whole album was more like Charmaine Champagne,which is a good example of a good FF track:

rich production, interesting melody, high energy.

most of the rest is kinda repetetive in not-such-a-good-way,( though i still don't totally reject the option that it's a grower)

so, i'm warming to this is a way i didn't to the last two studio albums - def. a grower, though.

favorites thus far:

title track
the end is near
charmaine champagne
lost at sea

i hope this is a grower, as it did almost nothing for me the first time through.

"Even in the Rain" is a Good Track.

Fiery Furnaces fans wont like to listen to what i think about this album.

let's just say i'm going away FROM the fiery furnaces

have they become boring?

let's just say i'm going away FROM the fiery furnaces

― Zeno, Friday, July 3, 2009 10:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

^ snork snork

i'm sure the songs on this will sound ok when they play them for 30-40 seconds in the middle of a show : /

*crickets*

...and it's not even out yet. You win this one, internet!

I am enjoying this album immensely, from beginning to end, and for me it's their most emotionally engaging album yet, as well as having some of the catchiest, delightful melodies.

NO ONE CARES ABOUT THIS BAND ANYMORE WHY BECAUSE THEY DONT SOUND INTERSTING

obviously that's not correct, just look at the post just before yours.

$3.99 for Amazon mp3 version. Well worth the $

Listened to it once, wasn't really feeling it at all. Probably won't bother again as I just don't feel like I need this band in my life in 2009.

I still haven't heard this! Got put off by all the reviews. I can tell you now you picked the wrong one though. Blueberry Boat is absolutely the one you should start with.

i think all you need is BBoat, the EP, and Bitter Tea,

and Widow City, and I agree with you

first album is crazy overrated

*awaits butthurt*

I got into Fiery Furnaces via Widow City which I think is outstanding - like it more than Blueberry Boat, which I heard later. I'm Going Away is not good. Widow City and Blueberry Boat are both more guitar-oriented, have a harder edge, and are more unpredictable. If this were the 90s I'd say they were "mathy," though not as cold as that term might suggest. The one thing all the albums have in common is that the FFs are always a little grating and awkward... but when they do it right, it's super terrific.

WC and BB are the only out-and-out BRILLIANT albums IMO and yeah Scott's right; you CANNOT overlook Widow City. The songwriting and narrative on both is amazing. Bitter Tea, if edited, would have been at the same level. There's a lot of *great* music there but it's far, far, far too much for one sitting. You really ought to hear it though because the (numerous) highlights are sublime. Just uh...take it slowly - it's much more exhausting than the ostensibly more impenetrable (but actually really fun and coherent) Blueberry Boat.

I never got into BB that much. I love WC though.

i think all their records are way too long. i have Bitter Tea on vinyl--2lp--and it's great that way, in chunks.

I think they're intentionally too long - just another extension of their M.O.

first album is crazy overrated

*awaits butthurt*

― Mark Ronson: "Led Zeppelin were responsible for hip-hop" (acoleuthic), Friday, June 18, 2010 10:56 AM (2 days ago)

u r crazy dumb

*awaits hi-5*

i feel like there's been a real narrowing-down of their ambitions since BB and the grandmother album. is this bad, who agrees, etc

Grandmother album is most ambitious, I guess. I haven't listened to that in a long time, but I liked it pretty well at one time. I should pull it out again. I still have never heard I'm Going Away - was scared off by comments in this thread and underwhelmed by the 30-second snippets I heard.

"drive to dallas" is gorgeous

― what a disaster for 1p3 (k3vin k.), Saturday, June 20, 2009 1:34 PM (7 years ago)