Rehearsing My Choir - The Fiery Furnaces
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 130 Ratings

  • Summary: Siblings Matt and Eleanor Friedberger are joined by their 83-year-old grandmother (!) on their latest eclectic release.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 25
  2. Negative: 5 out of 25
  1. As exhausting as it is brilliant. [Dec 2005, p.202]
  2. 80
    As unique and poignant as a family bible. [Nov 2005, p.104]
  3. 60
    Not for all--or even most--tastes, the result is abrasive and weirdly haunting. [Nov 2005, p.135]
  4. Thrilling prospect though it may be, the result is a disaster.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 64
  2. Negative: 14 out of 64
  1. SpencerM
    10
    Critics hated it for not being a pop record; a record they wanted. But it's not supposed to be, you idiots! Who would ever do a pop record with their 83 year-old grandmother?? Nobody has, and nither have the Furnaces. This album is more of a radio show, a theatrically-whimsy and changing-as-is-life collection of sounds that tell the story of Olga Sarantos, the Furnaces' grandma. It's brilliant and if you don't like it not because you don't like Furnaces' style, but because it's too "out there" or "too far", then you're missing out. Expand
  2. SeanT
    8
    it gets a 10 for ingenuity and a 6 for listenability but then again this music is not meant to really enjoy but more so to study and yes there is a place in music for study despite all the people who just like music for dancing. Expand
  3. Paul
    7
    A unique album, worked out better than i expected it to be but overall their least best record.
  4. RogerT
    3
    Enough of this artsy-fartsy stuff. Let's write some hits, kids.

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