The Fiery Furnaces burn down the sound barrier
Sibling duo transcends old-fashioned ‘with-audio’ album-making
By Julia Reidy-
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The Fiery Furnaces
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&-;They’ve been saying the album is dead for a long time,” says the Fiery Furnaces’ Matt Friedberger. &-;I don’t know why they want to kill the album.”-
To the New York brother/sister duo, it seems alive and well. Famous for spectacular, keyboard-heavy, live performances and eccentric, virtuosic recordings, Fiery Furnaces released their eighth record I’m Going Away July 21 via Thrill Jockey Records. But they didn’t stop there. In reaction to the supposed demise, Matt and his sister Eleanor are putting together a &-;silent album” - a songbook that will be made up of sheet music, instructions and other visual representations of songs that fans (or non-fans, Friedberger makes sure to point out) can use to recreate musical on their own.-
&-;Obviously we’re going to continue to make the conventional and supposedly obsolete ‘with-audio’ records,” Friedberger says. &-;But in the meantime, we wanted to ‘record’ a ‘record’ that responds in an appropriate way to this situation.”