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MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER - Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School
| Popmatters | | If you’re even reading this, chances are good that you’ve heard of, and developed an opinion on, The Fiery Furnaces. The two sides of the argument regarding the band would seem to be that the Furnaces, comprised of brother-sister duo Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, are either skewed pop geniuses or A.D.D.-addled annoyances, with very little room for the in-between. ...full text |
| | RollingStone | | Friedberger's double-disc solo debut is as overstuffed and all-over-the-place as his work with Fiery Furnaces would indicate: twenty-nine messy pop collages, several of them barely coherent. The vaguely songful Winter Women offers whimsical blurts and squiggles, snatches of melody plus summery charmers like "Quick as Cupid"; Holy Ghost Language School is more outre, combining inspired, jazz-savvy weirdness with ambient hoo-ha and cheesy keybs, all tagged to a story line about an English-language school in Japan....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | Perhaps a little known fact: The Fiery Furnaces' excessively demonized Rehearsing My Choir and satanic/girl-group/menstrual pre-teen pseudo-conceptual follow-up, Bitter Tea, were initially intended as a double album. So it's no surprise that when Matthew Friedberger, the main musical input to the Furnaces' opus, decided to drop his little sis Eleanor, he'd spit out two at once....full text |
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