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Friedberger's double-disc solo debut is as overstuffed and all-over-the-place as his work with Fiery Furnaces would indicate: twenty-nine messy pop collages, several of them barely coherent. The vaguely songful Winter Women offers whimsical blurts and squiggles, snatches of melody plus summery charmers like "Quick as Cupid"; Holy Ghost Language School is more outre, combining inspired, jazz-savvy weirdness with ambient hoo-ha and cheesy keybs, all tagged to a story line about an English-language school in Japan. Both albums could have been trimmed, duh, but there's enough good stuff to recommend to Furnaces fans -- or to anyone wondering what Ornette Coleman might have sounded like as an indie popper.
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Track List
- Under The Hood At The Paradise Garage.
- The Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co., Resignation Letter
- Up The River
- Ruth V's Rachel
- Her Chinese Typewriter
- Big Bill Cribb & His Ladies Of The Desert
- Don't You Remember?
- Betcha Don't
- PS 213 Mini School
- Theme From Never Going Home Again
- Motorman
- Quick As Cupid
- I Love You Cedric
- Servent In Distress
- Hialeah
- Wisconsin River Blues
- 7th Loop Highway
- Holy Ghost Language School
- The Cross And The Switchblade
- I Started Drinking Alcohol At The Age Of Eleven
- Do You Like Blondes
- Azusa St.
- Topeka And San Antonio
- A Mystical Preparative To Lewdness
- Ship Scrap Beach Business
- First Day Of School
- Things Were Going So Well
- All In Vain Or The Opposite
- Moral And Epilouge
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