Reading stuff like this only feeds my desire to see the Fiery Furnaces live:
The Furnaces’ current live set is extraordinary and in a genre all of its own. Let’s call it progressive punk. Short songs from their debut album, Gallowsbird Bark, are melded together into one long piece of music. Sometimes they only play a few lines of a song, then move on to another and return to the first song ten minutes later, via parts of six or seven others. Structurally, it’s more like a film soundtrack than a pop gig, with certain themes that repeat, often in completely different ways. (full review)
[credz largehearted boy]