“In a grand move to restore liner notes to their informative zenith, the inky little paper accompanying *Gallowsbird's Bark* offers a handful of (supposedly) autobiographical clues to The Fiery Furnaces' raucous brother/sister gambol: "Matthew encouraged Eleanor to come down in the basement to make their first Fiery Furnaces music together. Maybe he should have hit and stabbed and smashed her. But ”
