The Fiery FurnacesBest The Fiery Furnaces Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
11
Opinions
10
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated The Fiery Furnaces’s catalog across 10 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated The Fiery Furnaces album is Blueberry Boat (2004) with a 8.6/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Gallowsbird's Bark and EP. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2003 to 2009. Down at the So and So on Somewhere ranks as the highest-rated The Fiery Furnaces song on Rate.fm with a 7.1/10 average.
Blueberry Boat
“The Fiery Furnaces' debut, *Gallowsbird’s Bark*, pegged them as a whimsical but rootsy New York band, one compared numbingly often to The White Stripes. Most of the clean garage revival was as predictable as a Guy Lombardo tribute, but the Furnaces stood apart, both for their The Band-meets-Syd Barrett nuggets and their lyrics, which read like a ransom note made from ripped-up atlases. Frontwoman ”
EP
“The band we love but you love to hate skip the multipart song cycles on this immediately accessible collection of singles, b-sides, and other rarities. OK, so this 10-track EP has an uninspiring title; instead, the Friedberger sibs saved their best ideas for their songs.”
Gallowsbird's Bark
“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 ”