Matthew Friedberger of Fiery Furnaces is a pistol, punctuating his thoughts with chuckles, and backing up and turning around his statements continually. For the first part of this interview, go to this week’s Sonic Reducer. Otherwise read on.
SFBG: So you describe Remember as long and people can use it as they will. It’s not designed to be an “album album”?
Matthew Friedberger: Well, not to compare this to a masterpiece like the Clash’s Sandanista, which is one of my favorite records, but I never listen to that all at once. I think of that as one record, even if it’s a three-record record, and it’s longer, I think, than this one. But totally different, totally different. Like I say, I don’t mean to compare [Remember] to a record like that. But, um, I do think of it as a record, if you want to think about it – not that you think about it – but if somebody wanted to think about it…you’d think about it together.