Rehearsing My Choir

by The Fiery Furnaces

Rehearsing My Choir cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 October 2005
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 59:06
  • Community rating: 3.21/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Olga Sarantos, Eleanor Friedberger

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The eccentric sibling duo constructs a dizzying, highly complex conceptual narrative revolving around the life stories of their own grandmother, Olga Sarantos, who provides prominent spoken-word vocals. The bizarre, unpredictable arrangements frequently shift tempos and styles, blurring the line between progressive rock, electronic pop, and avant-garde theater.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, history, complex, experimental, avant-garde, theatrical, lo-fi, diverse

Tracklist

  1. The Garfield El (4:25)
  2. The Wayward Granddaughter (6:25)
  3. A Candymaker's Knife in My Handbag (4:50)
  4. We Wrote Letters Everyday (4:19)
  5. Forty-Eight Twenty-Three Twenty-Second Street (4:57)
  6. Guns Under the Counter (4:33)
  7. 7 Silver Curses (9:22)
  8. Though Let's Be Fair (2:07)
  9. Slavin Away (6:56)
  10. Rehearsing My Choir (5:45)
  11. Does It Remind You of When? (5:22)

Credits

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