Video Premiere: Fiery Furnaces: "Evergreen" (Live at the Mercury Lounge)
Next week Fiery Furnaces are releasing the much-anticipated Widow City, their sixth full-length and first for Thrill Jockey. We have already discussed here "Duplexes of the Dead", one of record's more immediate tracks. And now we have a special treat for Fiery Furnaces fans. The band played a "secret show" at the Mercury Lounge in September to celebrate the new record, which Pitchfork was on hand to film. And over the next several days we will be rolling out a new live clip from the set every afternoon.
Fiery Furnaces played mostly material from the new record at the Mercury Lounge show-- they were there to celebrate Widow City, after all, note the "WC" t-shirts onstage-- and we will get to those songs soon. But they also played a couple of numbers from the back catalog. So let's start things off with an old favorite from the band's self-titled EP, a song called, appropriately enough, "Evergreen". Though they usually take liberties with arrangements, this performance is relatively true to the original, the biggest difference being Matt Friedberger on electric piano instead of acoustic. "I would dab off my tears/ With my favorite pinecone", goes a typically elliptical FF lyric. The words somehow manage to resonate the way Eleanor Friedberger sings them. Stay tuned for more.