The Fiery Furnaces are an American band formed in Brooklyn in the year 2000. The inventive, often challengingly experimental indie rock band, signed to Rough Trade in 2002 and worked upon their debut album, Gallowsbird's Bark the same year. Released in the fall of 2003, that album garnered critical praise for its clever wordplay and original songwriting.
The band is often compared to The White Stripes because of both of the bands consisting solely of a brother and sister. In the case of both bands this is a lie — The White Stripes because they are not brother and sister and The Fiery Furnaces because although siblings Eleanor and Matt Friedberger are the major members of the band (both on vocals, Matt on guitar, synth and organ, Eleanor also on guitar) it also contains Andy Knowles on drums and Toshi Yano on bass and synth. Andy and Toshi both joined the band in time for their 2004 tour. Regardless, The Fiery Furnaces sound nothing like The White stripes. Live performances of the band are often hour long, continuous sets of music featuring snippets of most of their recorded songs.
The Fiery Furnaces released their follow up to Gallowsbird's Bark in the summer of 2004. Blueberry Boat showcased the same quirky songwriting of their debut, but featured a number of jauntily epic songs that showed just how difficult the group could be.
"Quay Cur," the ten minute long lead track on Blueberry Boat, switches from dirty gurgling organ to slide guitar-fueled ditty to abstract lullaby within a few minutes, showing the Fiery Furnaces' variety in songwriting, although this epic concept album is considered unfocused by its detractors.
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
to tumble to the earth; yea, even the fieryfurnace could not harm them, neither wild beasts nor poisonous serpents, because of the power of his word.
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