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艺人

The Fiery Furnaces

语种

英语

厂牌

Thrill Jockey

发行时间

2007年10月09日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Heather Phares

The first song on Widow City, "Philadelphia Grand Jury" -- all seven minutes of it -- defines everything fascinating, and occasionally frustrating, about the Fiery Furnaces' music. Eleanor Friedberger sings about legal woes, red tape, and conspiracies as the music behind her switches from tinkling piano and harp to anthemic guitars and back again, then drifts off into its own noodly world. Likewise, Widow City is a quintessentially Fiery Furnaces album, recombining the Friedburgers' hyper-literate art rock and experimental almost-pop: "Japanese Slippers" plays a bit like one of Gallowsbird's Bark's saloon ditties filtered through Blueberry Boat's kaleidoscope. However, Widow City's major accomplishment is how it captures the band's live power and sheds some of their mannered studio sound. It rocks hard, and often: in-the-red drums and guitars dominate "Wicker Whatnots," where they collide with violins and lyrics about animal sacrifices and meterological conditions, and the thrashy "Uncle Charlie," which opens with a lengthy -- and crazed -- drum solo, then threatens to collapse for its entire two minutes. There's also a strong classic rock influence on the album; "Duplexes of the Dead"'s melody sounds more than a little like the chorus of the Rolling Stones' "Child of the Moon," and "Navy Nurse"'s funky, behemoth riff could be from Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein." ... Read More...