Video: Fiery Furnaces, “Charmaine Champagne”
- story Peter Macia
This video was posted to Vimeo eight days ago, but we are only now putting it up out of fear the Friedbergers may have lost their marbles. As the band stated on their website yesterday, their next album will be a silent one. Read the whole crazy statement after the jump, go see them on their upcoming tour, buy their new album filled with scattered jams like this one and view what may be their final listenable video above. Save their marbles!
Video: Fiery Furnaces, “Duplexes Of The Dead”
- story THE FADER
There is something about this video that makes us really uneasy. Maybe it’s the little hooded dude wandering around or the giant projection of Eleanor Friedberger on lots of walls. Either way, this song is totally cool and the Fiery Furnaces are an uneasy sounding band as it is, so it works.
Video: Fiery Furnaces, “Navy Nurse”
- story THE FADER
Man we need a vacation. With Eleanor. And some coffee. We’ll settle for the coffee. Okay, water. From the tap.
Friedberger Fest
- story THE FADER
This weekend found (some of) us clamoring into Webster Hall – home of the famous collapsing floorboards – for the Fiery Furnaces jammy. Last we were there, it was for the country fried Whipporwhill clan (er, Followill?) Kings of Leon show and – listen up haterz – this one was just as packed.
Ells and Matt pulled off more of their indubitable Friedberger Melody Frenzy, punctuated by the occasional sing-song, on-stage aside like, “Matt don’t keep looking at me like that,” (i.e. remember when you were 7 years old and just decided to sing everything instead of speaking? “No I don’t want to eat that squash I’m going to go upstairs to watch He-Man” etc etc.? Kinna like that.)
Biggest bummer of the night was the daylight savings-era scheduling: show time was 9 pm. WTF people, is this a breakfast meeting or a concert show? Apparently at 11 o clock Webby Hall does a serious Cinderella act and turns into some dubious dance party, no Blueberry Boat or Gallowsbirds Bark to speak of.
