Thrill Jockey
2008
Remember
About This Album
"Do not attempt to listen to all at once," reads a disclaimer on the back of Remember, a sprawling live album that comes for any brain cells left unfried by the Fiery Furnaces' studio work. The band is well known for changing almost everything it can about its songs in concert, transforming them into Latin funk jams, keyboard-driven prog rock excursions, and elaborate medleys, but this album goes further, splicing together very different performances of each of its song into dazzling, and sometimes bewildering, musical collages. This isn't just an edited or subtly studio-enhanced live album along the lines of Kiss' Alive! or Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous: Remember not only subverts the purpose of most live albums -- capturing a band's concert performance as accurately and unobtrusively as possible -- but is also far more fragmented than anything they recorded in a studio. Over 40 songs performed by four different versions of the touring Furnaces lineup during three years' worth of playing in all kinds of venues provided fodder for Remember, which ends up feeling like one giant ever-changing song spanning two hours and two discs. The tangents and changes that embellished the album versions of these songs become their structures, transforming the album from a document into a springboard for even more daring experiments.
Track List

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