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The Fiery Furnaces to cover The Fiery Furnaces
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 30 July 2009
Brother and sister Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, aka The Fiery Furnaces, have revealed they will release a new version of their recently released album, ‘I’m Going Away’, later this year. The pair will split the album’s twelve songs between them and record six solo tracks each.
Does that even make any sense? Maybe it’ll help if you get it straight from the horse’s mouth. Here’s the band’s own statement on the matter: “Matthew and Eleanor are taking time out from watching season two of ‘Mad Men’ to record separate, complete, cover, tribute, albums, of, to, ‘I’m Going Away’. Only the words will remain the same. Though in Eleanor’s case, the singer remains the same. The song, never. Or mostly never. In other words: complete cover-album versions of The Fiery Furnaces by The Fiery Furnaces. Or The Fiery Furnaces. By the two of them, separately. To be released in two parts, together. Six songs by one with six by the other. And then another six by six. The first batch comes out sometime in New York City – meaning September”.
No, that didn’t help at all. Let’s just say it a third time very quickly: The Fiery Furnaces will release a new version of their recently released album, ‘I’m Going Away’, in September.
