it's a very good album
― Bee OK, Sunday, 4 August 2013 01:02 (ten years ago) link
I keep expecting this album to go stale but it's just too damm playfull.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 4 August 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
I like it but I'm still not sucked in by it - her first stuck with me a lot more.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 4 August 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
Dunno why this record didn't blow up
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Sunday, 4 August 2013 05:49 (ten years ago) link
Bought it today, think it's great. Was never that into Fiery Furnaces.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 4 August 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 January 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― kraudive, Friday, 10 January 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dronestreet, Friday, 10 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
liked FF, love Eleanor solo, so Van Horn, you're not alone there at all
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:04 (ten years ago) link
will give this a listen! blueberry boat is still bigger than jesus you jaded loons :D
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
of course her solos are better. the reason is the lack of her brother.
― nostormo, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
(no pretentiousness)
― nostormo, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
such ban
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
would describe this record, 3 1/2 trax in, as 'not unlikeable', maybe rising to 'intermittently pleasant'
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
haha nah i'm bein a shit. it's p good
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
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
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
oh ok 'tomorrow tomorrow' is massive
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
uh and the next song is incredible too. wai u wait 6 tracks 2 turn shit gr8
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah the first couple of FF records were great
― nostormo, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
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
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
this EF album definitely a second-halfer
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― mizzell, Thursday, 8 October 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
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).
― dow, Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
Precision vs. chaos barely off-stage, is the implication.
― dow, Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
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.
― dow, Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
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
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
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'
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
fwiw the new e friedberger song was decent imo
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
I listen to Personal Record more than any FF records these days.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
Eleanor Friedberger's two solo records are great - Personal Record especially. Fiery Furnaces fucked it up. She should've been a big star.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 8 October 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
what makes her good is exactly what stands in the way of stardom
― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Friday, 9 October 2015 04:48 (eight years ago) link
Listening to the Matthew album now. It's pretty good! Not even as wacky as some the FF stuff.
― mizzell, Saturday, 10 October 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
Saw both Friedberger siblings on the street today. They are cool looking.
― mizzell, Sunday, 11 October 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
did they look cool in a 'making music together again' way
― twunty fifteen (imago), Sunday, 11 October 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
Nah. I've seen them together in the last few years so I didn't read anything into it.
― mizzell, Monday, 12 October 2015 00:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/i1/bp/eleanor-new-view.jpgOut January 22.
01 He Didn't Mention His Mother02 Open Season03 Sweetest Girl04 Your Word05 Because I Asked You06 Never Is a Long Time07 Cathy With the Curly Hair08 Two Versions of Tomorrow09 All Known Things10 Does Turquoise Work?11 A Long Walk
― mizzell, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
False Alphabet City not on there. Samples sound like the last record, maybe slightly more acoustic/pastoral.
― mizzell, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
Keeps up her run of great album covers.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 29 October 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
Whoah that new song He Didn't Mention His Mother is fantastic. I love it I love it
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 30 October 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
looking forward to this.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 5 November 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/13/462845881/first-listen-eleanor-friedberger-new-view
― mizzell, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
this is really nicei feel like her and cat le bon are 2 of the only ppl who can pull off a 70s singer songwriter vibe and have it feel fresh and not annoying to mesucks that john misty is so much more successful. i kinda liked him on first blush then it really curdled for me.
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 January 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Wish False Alphabet City was in there. Was that a soundtrack song or something?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 January 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
New one is nice, and yeah, I agree, she's really good at the 70s singer songwriter thing without making it seem conspicuous or retro. New one isn't immediately grabbing me quite like the previous two, but I've still been playing it a lot.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 22 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
New album has really grown on me in the last couple days. It was all blurring together for a while there. But I have the album in a playlist of new stuff and I played it on shuffle: every time a Friedberger song came up I was blown away by how smart it was. Her songwriting is so sophisticated and effortless at the same time.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 29 January 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link