Indie-rock’s preeminent prog-rock duo, The Fiery Furnaces, are set to release a 51-track live album, titled Remember, in late August that revisits the band’s catalog since 2005. Because the band frequently switch up the songs in their live versions (and the absurd length of the album), there’s sure to be a few new revelations.
Among them is “Wicker Whatnots,” from last year’s Widow City, which struck me in the studio version as a sloppy blues-pastiche, but in the live version from Remember, it sounds like a jazzy, stream-of-consciousness, pysch-rock experiment that should be set to Warhol video clips.
Remember is due out on August 19 via Thrill Jockey. Here’s a track list:
Disc 1
01 Intro
02 Blueberry Boat
03 Single Again
04 Two Fat Feet
05 Don't Dance Her Down
06 Single Again (Reprise)
07 Wicker Whatnots
08 Little Thatched Hut
09 I'm In No Mood
10 Black-Hearted Boy
11 Bitter Tea
12 Waiting To Know You
13 Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
14 Oh Sweet Woods
15 Borneo
16 Benton Harbor Blues
17 Japanese Slippers
18 Benton Harbor Blues (Reprise)
19 Whistle Rhapsody
20 Crystal Clear
21 Whistle Rhapsody (Reprise)
22 Teach Me Sweetheart
23 Evergreen
24 Bitter Tea (Reprise)
Disc 2
01 Chris Michaels
02 Quay Cur
03 My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found
04 Spaniolated
05 Name Game
06 Birdie Brain
07 1917
08 Slavin' Away (Intro)
09 Tropical Ice-land
10 Asthma Attack
11 Tropical Ice-land (Reprise)
12 The Wayward Granddaughter
13 The Garfield El
14 A Candymaker's Knife In My Handbag
15 Forty-Eight Twenty-Three Twenty-Second St.
16 Slavin\' Away
17 Seven Silver Curses
18 Clear Signal From Cairo
19 I'm Gonna Run
20 Here Comes The Summer
21 Chief Inspector Blancheflower
22 Automatic Husband
23 Ex-Guru
24 Clear Signal From Cairo (Reprise)
25 Philadelphia Grand Jury
26 Navy Nurse
27 Uncle Charlie
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