Eleanor Friedberger (of the Fiery Furnaces)

You know, I like this new tune a great deal (more than the debut ) and I'm stoked that her solo career is going well, but FFS GIMME SOME FIERY FURNACES MUSIC. Matt's solo stuff sucks and it annoys me that the band isn't come up in their solo interviews more

am I wrong to feel this way?

i liked last summer more than any fiery furnaces in quite a while but agree that it is odd the status of the band doesn't even come up

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/three-in-grown-nose-hairs

I really love this new record.

This is even better than Last Summer

Never been a fan of her band, but "Stare at the Sun" is absolutely fantastic. Maybe I've just really got Scott Miller on the brain lately in the wake of his death, but this track sounds exactly like a Donnette Thayer Game Theory track.

This is even better than Last Summer

― Van Horn Street, Saturday, June 8, 2013 5:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ this. I didn't think she could one-up that one, but she did. This plays, to me, like a late-period Moz album if late-period Moz albums were actually great instead of mediocre and forgettable.

Haha, so how it is late-period Moz-like then?

I dunno - something about the first three or four songs especially remind me, melodically and lyrically, of Moz. Also, titles like "I'll Never Be Happy Again" and "You'll Never Know Me" sound like Morrissey titles. And "Tomorrow Tomorrow" and "My Own World" inhabit that weird Southpaw Grammar era where Moz wasn't rocking, exactly, but was certainly more assertive than on records like Vauxhall and I.

is this out?

as of tuesday of last week.

Maybe I've just really got Scott Miller on the brain lately in the wake of his death, but this track sounds exactly like a Donnette Thayer Game Theory track.

^^^ on this. This album is a keeper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-iyAoMa6Y

Thinking of giving this another go - does it have legs?

OK thats it. I am committing to listening to a song on You Tube

it's a very good album

I keep expecting this album to go stale but it's just too damm playfull.

I like it but I'm still not sucked in by it - her first stuck with me a lot more.

Dunno why this record didn't blow up

Bought it today, think it's great. Was never that into Fiery Furnaces.

I'm starting to prefer the solo records than the FF ones. I am having a lot of fun with the FF records but her solo albums somehow speak to me more. I wonder if I'm the only one.

Personal Record is lovely, but the only solo record I've heard. It's going to be high in my poll for the year. Was listening again to it today and it's gorgeous.

I just heard this record in the last month, due to starting weekends at a record shop. After looking & admiring the cover art for a couple weeks, I popped it on during a slow period, and am really digging it -- love the warm 70's production & the sound of the whole thing...especially the rhythm section and her voice. And I *hated* the Fiery Furnaces, with a passion that only being a College Radio music director & listening to way-too-much-shit can bring.

liked FF, love Eleanor solo, so Van Horn, you're not alone there at all

will give this a listen! blueberry boat is still bigger than jesus you jaded loons :D

of course her solos are better. the reason is the lack of her brother.

(no pretentiousness)

such ban

would describe this record, 3 1/2 trax in, as 'not unlikeable', maybe rising to 'intermittently pleasant'

haha nah i'm bein a shit. it's p good

her two solo albums are more my jam than the fiery furnaces at this point. i appreciate the band, but after awhile i didn't appreciate them enough to listen to them anymore.

neat as this is, it's absolutely nowhere even remotely near to the FFs at their mindblowing chameleonic best. much more musically conservative, much less surprising or limber about song narrative. but hey, nice li'l conventional popsongs if that's what you're into

oh ok 'tomorrow tomorrow' is massive

uh and the next song is incredible too. wai u wait 6 tracks 2 turn shit gr8

yeah the first couple of FF records were great

more than the first couple! widow city and bitter tea both monstrous(ly underrated). actually i don't rly like the first one, it's nothing on what came after

this EF album definitely a second-halfer

new song is cool, weirder than most of her solo stuff, maybe more fiery furnace-ish, with its static instrumental break and spoken word bits.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/10/eleanor_friedbe_15.html#more

Will check, thanks. I need to catch up with all of her solo stuff, but heard the mannered delivery complained about upthread as (possibly inadvertent yet) effective characterization on FF albums: anxious, sometimes neurotic, sometimes even "Joan Didionesque middle-aged woman on the verge," as St. Vincent said she was going for herself (interesting to hear young women doing that; guess who feels it knows it, or some of it).

Precision vs. chaos barely off-stage, is the implication.

Or inference, at least.

Actually it's not all off-stage on FF albums, where her brother's soundz can be oops upside the head.

If her solo settings are more sedate, might not work.

will listen to this but it's extremely annoying how she gets all the hype when her bro puts out the far superior material

he released an amazing album this year that nobody's heard. i write about it/link to it here: Fiery Furnaces sans sis: Matthew Friedberger's Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School

c'mon you can't actually be annoyed that someone writing and performing pop songs gets more coverage than one who releases "certifiably insane synth-rock operas"
as you say in that thread, it's basically his choice.

oh i'm cool that she gets more coverage. but he gets virtually none! ah well, guess yer right, it is the way it goes. listen to his stuff tho maybe, esp 'i wasn't working'

fwiw the new e friedberger song was decent imo

i actually put in the winter women cd in lately but didn't make it very far. i see now that he played in new york just last night. you are right he gets basically no coverage, which is remarkable given FF's former profile.

I listen to Personal Record more than any FF records these days.

Eleanor Friedberger's two solo records are great - Personal Record especially. Fiery Furnaces fucked it up. She should've been a big star.