The Fiery Furnaces’ sixth album, Widow City, comes out in North America on Tuesday, October 9th, on Thrill Jockey Records. Buy it here. It comes out in Europe on Monday, October 15th, also on Thrill Jockey Records. It comes out in Australia on October 6th. It comes out in Japan on October 10th.
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What turns banal, supposed statements of fact into bold hypotheses of chance? What steals away platitude, and, slipping in its place the hard-to-ponder, delivers us the possibility of wisdom from on-high, and on the cheap? What, by the seemingly systematic application of distraction and inattention, as opposed to the Old Adversary, Effort, makes probable […]

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Who isn’t a fan of the New York Times’ Vows page? Who doesn’t love the corresponding short films? But couples get married in other countries as well. “Nigeria’s leading tabloid”, The Sun, has an especially well-written section, called “Romance”. Compare the way happiness is depicted, so to speak, in the New York Times’ recent story, […]

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