Plenty of news on the upcoming Fiery Furnaces albums has emerged


DEC 6.04

THE NEW DOUBLE ALBUM
Plenty of news on the upcoming Fiery Furnaces albums has emerged. Pitchfork Media has revealed that The Fiery Furnaces next relase will be a double album, set for mid-July. The double release will include the albums "Garfield El" and "Speaking Chinese". Matt provided Pitchfork with a provisional tracklisting for "Garfield El", which includes the following songs:

Garfield El

The Wayward Granddaughter

The School of Fancy Cookery by Antoinette Pope

$5,000 a Day

Guns Under the Counter

Dr. Peter Pane and His Doughnut Factory

Seven Silver Curses

Funeral at My Wedding, Wedding at His Funeral  

Slaving Away

Bishop Nickoliky

Shady Grave

According to Pitchfork, Garfield El is named after the Green Line stop near which Matt and Eleanor's grandmother Olga Sarantos presumably resides. Also, Rough Trade is aiming for a May release, in contrast with the mid-July date suggested by the band. When asked about "Garfield El", Matt said: "I don't know what to say about it. There's a lot of talking. It's sorta middle-eastern-like. I shouldn't try and give a description. There's a lot of narration on it." The backing tracks are completed, and are laying down the vocals at Chicago's Soma Studios with grandmother Olga Sarantos. Apparently, Sarantos will be singing in dialogue with Eleanor repeatedly throughout the 60-minute record.


CONCERT-ONLY VINYLS
Speaking to Pitchfork, Matt announced the band were planning to record a series of new records which would be sold as vinyls at the band's shows. Matt told Pitchfork, "It would be 30-minute or 15-minute songs about Tom DeLay and his son, and 15-minute songs about the Senate Majority Leader [Bill Frist]. They would be very factual and realistic. They're such different characters, those two. The fancy surgeon and the exterminator, DeLay. His son is a big developer north of Dallas."