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Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

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Garcin:
A little bit of necroposting to celebrate (a) Bitter Tea's official release two days ago; and (b) the Fiery Furnaces show yesterday at the Bowery Ballroom, launching their Bitter Tea tour.

Eleanor took a little while took get in her groove (warming up with Chris Michaels), but once she was there, the band took flight.  They did songs from all four albums (only the title song from Rehearsing My Choir, I think) and Blueberry Boat showed up in the encore (to be greeted by the screams of an enthusiastic audience).

They did four or five songs from Bitter Tea, and the standout was definitely "I'm In No Mood" -- the other's were good as well.  As usual, they replaced the keyboard lines with guitar, and in the relatively small space of the Bowery this played rather well.  All in all, a great concert, and I'm looking to their return to NYC in June (at Webster Hall this time).  Catch them if you can.

jcknbl:
I thought the album was conceptually interesting but a good bit dissapointing. The whole thing felt a little rushed and over-produced. Where Blueberry Boat was epic Bitter Tea is just confused. The backwards thing gets pretty obnoxious too. On the other hand its still a fucking Fiery Furnaces album so its awesome. They're coming here in June and I am hella excited.

Rubby:
I have a serious problem with RMC. I'm torn you might say. I love the tunes; they're classic FF, catchy and eccentric and neat. But then that bitches voice, oh god! Every time I hear her I wish she was here in my living room so I could kick her...in the face.

Edit: Yay! I finally no longer have a cantaloupe phobia!

Edit pt 2. Oh god! I'm listening to it right now and I got to that part in the first song where that bitchfuck is going "La La La". OH FUCK SHUT UP BITCH!

Garcin:
It was interesting, actually, because Eleanor and Matt were somewhere between hostile and apologetic about the whole RMC thing.  On the one hand, they were definitely far less confident in their stage presence and delivery than when they were doing the RMC tour.  On the other, prior to introducing the RMC title song, Matt said something along the lines of: "And here's a song that everyone should know, from everyone's favorite album."

I enjoyed RMC, but it's not in my regular rotation.  I'm glad they did it though: there isn't any doubt that if they wanted to do White Stripes or Strokes style stuff they could fucking nail it -- the fact that they choose to go their own way is what makes them so awesome.  They're one of the few bands I'm aware of with a typical instrumentation (guitar, keyboard, bass, drums) trying to do something interesting with lyrics, narrative, and song structure.

Valrus:

--- Quote from: Rubby ---Edit pt 2. Oh god! I'm listening to it right now and I got to that part in the first song where that bitchfuck is going "La La La". OH FUCK SHUT UP BITCH!
--- End quote ---


Jesus, that's their fucking grandma, dude. Take a pill.

A Confucian respect-for-your-elders pill.

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