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For over a decade, Eleanor Friedberger has been making driving, arty, blues-inflected rock as the fairer half of the Fiery Furnaces . While her brother Matthew contributes most of the instrumentation and generally gets the credit as the outside-the-box songwriting savant, Eleanor's lyrics, with their camera's-eye attention to detail and coolly detached verbosity, are equally responsible for ...

Brother-sister act Fiery Furnaces has spent the past ten years earning a reputation as one of the most prolific and confounding acts in indie rock.

Lovable though the Fiery Furnaces are, part of the brother-and-sister duo's charm is its tendency to upend any moments of pop perfection with cacophonous noises, fractures in song structure, and other sonic disturbances. Thankfully, on Last Summer , her first solo outing, Furnaces singer

In support of her lovely solo debut, the Fiery Furnaces frontwoman performs live at opbmusic.

In support of her lovely solo debut, the Fiery Furnaces frontwoman performs live at opbmusic.

In support of her lovely solo debut, the Fiery Furnaces frontwoman performs live at opbmusic.

A UK release date!

Abstract pop music experienced a renaissance in the mid-'00s. Matmos and the Fiery Furnaces both released career-defining albums, while LCD Soundsystem etched out a spot in the cultural consciousness with increasingly grandiose works. And let us not forget about Junior Boys ; this Ontario d...

Eleanor Friedberger , the female half of the Fiery Furnaces , released her first solo album Last Summer earlier this year. And this fall, she'll tour North America, playing shows with Deerhunter, the Kills, and Wild Flag. We've got her dates below.

Space-age funk and eerie pop fuse together behind a dramatic voice on this first solo release from the Fiery Furnaces singer.

Eleanor Friedberger and the new guitar she got last Thursday. (Really.)​ This is the part where we tell you how good Eleanor Friedberger's new solo album is. Eleanor, you may recall, is the femi