The Fiery FurnacesBest The Fiery Furnaces Albums Ranked

Blueberry Boat

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9.6

“The Fiery Furnaces' debut, *Gallowsbird’s Bark*, pegged them as a whimsical but rootsy New York band, one compared numbingly often to The White Stripes. Most of the clean garage revival was as predictable as a Guy Lombardo tribute, but the Furnaces stood apart, both for their The Band-meets-Syd Barrett nuggets and their lyrics, which read like a ransom note made from ripped-up atlases. Frontwoman ”

EP

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8.9

“The band we love but you love to hate skip the multipart song cycles on this immediately accessible collection of singles, b-sides, and other rarities. OK, so this 10-track EP has an uninspiring title; instead, the Friedberger sibs saved their best ideas for their songs.”

Gallowsbird's Bark

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8.4

“In a grand move to restore liner notes to their informative zenith, the inky little paper accompanying *Gallowsbird's Bark* offers a handful of (supposedly) autobiographical clues to The Fiery Furnaces' raucous brother/sister gambol: "Matthew encouraged Eleanor to come down in the basement to make their first Fiery Furnaces music together. Maybe he should have hit and stabbed and smashed her. But ”

I'm Going Away

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7.8

“The often inscrutable Friedberger siblings make a welcome comeback on this, their most accessible record in years.”

Bitter Tea

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7.6

“Recorded at roughly the same time as last year's Rehearsing My Choir, the latest from the Freidberger siblings is free of conceptual trappings, and is another carefully considered, sonically rich release.”

Widow City

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7.4

“The Friedberger sibs consolidate some of their strengths on a record placed firmly in the 1970s, one that finds them veering between ramming through ersatz Led Zeppelin riffs on bass and keyboards and coaxing soft-rock and soul arrangements out of a wheezy Chamberlin organ.”