Fiery Furnaces

Friday, February 24, at 8 p.m. at Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street.

Feb 22, 2006 at 4:00 am

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Few bands have endured a critical backlash as severe as the one experienced by the Fiery Furnaces. Backlash seems too tame a term for it, even; call it critical whiplash. After heaping praise and year-end awards on the Furnaces' 2004 kaleidoscopic prog epic, Blueberry Boat, critics everywhere salivated into their Van Dykes, pondering how to capture the awfulness of last year's Rehearsing My Choir, a meditation on death featuring the spoken-word stylings of principal Furnaces Matt and Eleanor Friedberger's grandmother. Fortunately, '05 also saw the release of EP, a fabulous, album-length singles collection. Listen to "Here Comes the Summer" or "Evergreen," and snap your head back in wonder again: Who but the Fiery Furnaces can make your synapses fire and your booty shake at the same time?