Widow City

by The Fiery Furnaces

Widow City cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 October 2007
  • Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 59:11
  • Community rating: 3.39/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Robert D'Amico, Eleanor Friedberger

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring the extensive use of the Chamberlain M-1 tape-replay keyboard, the eccentric sibling duo crafted an overwhelmingly dense, labyrinthine art-pop record. The album is a dizzying, hyper-complex barrage of progressive rock structures and sudden tempo shifts anchored by Eleanor Friedberger's rapid-fire vocal delivery.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, progressive, complex, avant-garde, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. The Philadelphia Grand Jury (7:18)
  2. Duplexes of the Dead (2:39)
  3. Automatic Husband (2:08)
  4. Ex-Guru (2:42)
  5. Clear Signal from Cairo (6:10)
  6. My Egyptian Grammar (3:21)
  7. The Old Hag is Sleeping (2:54)
  8. Japanese Slippers (2:57)
  9. Navy Nurse (6:28)
  10. Uncle Charlie (2:16)
  11. Right by Conquest (3:36)
  12. Restorative Beer (2:37)
  13. Wicker Whatnots (4:27)
  14. Cabaret of the Seven Devils (2:44)
  15. Pricked in the Heart (2:15)
  16. Widow City (4:33)

Credits

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