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February 22, 2006
New Fiery Furnaces - "Police Sweater Blood Vow"
Fluxblog has a track from the forthcoming, allegedly straightforward, Bitter Tea album. It's real good.
Focused, melodic. But simple only in comparison to their epic, and occasionally intolerable song suites. There is all sorts of overdubbed scraping electric guitar, acoustic flourishes, a grounding piano melody, occasional keyboard pops, unexpected backing vocals from Matt F, and even a cheery "Na Na Na Na Na" breakdown.
All in aid of a long distance relationship narrative, with the chorus inventively using onomatopoiea to evoke a middle of the night heartsick cell phone call. Listen to it here.
Early interviews with the siblings Friedberger have claimed the album would sound like "Devo with pianos." This does not sound like Devo with pianos. But, if we get tuneful half ballads like this, and Devo with pianos? The album anticipation meter just notched from "Cautiously Optimistic" to "Actually Excited." Or from burnt umber to a light periwinkle for those who are more familiar with the color based system.
Bitter Tea for all on April 18th via Fat Possum Records.
Tags: Fiery Furnaces, Devo
Posted by Jeff Klingman at February 22, 2006 08:29 AM
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