I'm Going Away

The Fiery Furnaces | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 21, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thrill Jockey
• ASIN: B002AKAM2Y
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,247 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Different (but still great) Direction, April 14, 2010

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Alina (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I'm Going Away (Audio CD)

I've always believed the Fiery Furnaces to be grossly undervalued for all the reasons that I've always enjoyed them. This album doesn't feature the same unpredictability and wacky tangents as their previous albums, opting for a more organic, straightforward "rock" sound, but I found it just as interesting and enjoyable and still very "Fiery Furnaces". I appreciate they are still trying new things and surprising their audience. I think the quality of this album isn't lacking though I can see why some fans may be disappointed just because it is so different. I still loved it and would highly recommend it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Album, March 18, 2011

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DirkL (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I'm Going Away (Audio CD)

If the term "classic album" still has meaning (or supposing it ever did), 'I'm going away' is one of them. You'll read reviews declaring, this is weird, that's weird, not as eclectic, strange, blah, blah, blah and so on. This album contains - to milk that term again, classic pop writing. Only, the Friedbergers avoid cliche, adding interest and surprise in just about every song, something they manage while heightening the melodic interest. That's right, unlike some earlier recordings of theirs, melody is paramount and after only a few spins (that's old classic album era talk) the songs become as hum-able and addictive as the last great pop tune you caught yourself bopping along with. In the sense that some might consider say, Supertramp's 'Crisis, what Crisis?' to be a classic album or Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours', so it with this also. What the Friedbergers have done emphatically on this record is to reconstruct the pop song and make it sound fresh again. Many have tried and failed, the Fiery Furnaces have completely managed it. Honestly, music lovers should rejoice. Creative and modern, yet old as the Cutty Sark, this has to have been one of the albums of the year. Though clearly derivative (do we say, post modern?) there's no smug hipster-domic airs nor ironic deference to mainstream pop. 'I'm going away' is all of this, that and more, but fully realised and so much the better for it.

2.0 out of 5 stars too talented for your own good?, September 18, 2010

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Rob Kleiner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Going Away (Audio CD)

As a long time fan, I was very excited when this record came out. Obviously way ahead of their time, I see FFs as leading innovators in modern pop rock. This record seems a little more "modern rock" and a little less "pop" to me though. I miss some of the playful catchy tones on this record which were abundant lyrically and melodically in previous albums. I'll still buy every album they make until I'm dead.