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The perfervid Furnaces don't play it any straighter on album six, curtain raising with the shape-shifting, 7-minute dirge 'The City of Brotherly Love lordly Jury.' Like the band itself, the song is plenty tuneful and skillfully executed, but so many sudden left turns and long detours into cacophonic jams don't go down so easy when there's no end in sight.The band's core, siblings Eleanor and Saint Matthew the Apostle Friedberger, is anchored here by drummer Robert D'Amico, who gamely follows their every shagged whim. 'My Egyptian Grammar' smuggles a foetid poke and multi-instrumental whooshes of colouring buttocks Eleanor's eerily calm singing, which straightaway sours on the scraggy 'The Old Hag Is Sleeping.' Elsewhere, 'Navy Nurse' strikes off into deafening primordial blues, the too-brief Amy Winehouse Ringtones Beer' lifts a menacing page from Led Zeppelin's back catalog, 'Cabaret of the heptad Devils' erupts into a rumbustious story-song, the statute title path grows amiably crank and 'Pricked In The Heart' is just apparent pretty, disdain Eleanor's near-rapping of her brother's splendidly compact and alliterative lyrics. Read more

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