Widow City
The Fiery Furnaces
Released:
Oct 2007
Label:
Thrill Jockey
The Friedberger siblings make the most original prog-blues-rock this side of Captain Beefheart. Widow City may not be as surprising as an album entirely featuring their grandmother singing (like Rehearsing My Choir), but it brims with weird, meandering melodies and accomplished musicality. Shredding guitar, backward loops, Moog synth and fractured beats are strewn piecemeal, while Eleanor's anecdotal poetry deftly weaves in between. "Duplexes of the Dead," "Japanese Slippers" and "Wicker Whatnots" are as noodley and strange as you can get while still being catchy.
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