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Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer

Review by Alex Yau

Looks like you’re not the only Friedberger who can go it alone, Matthew!»

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the solo debut from the fiery furnaces' singer is a beguiling and byzantine new york-centric travelogue: 'owl's head park' uses an airy sax to portray a lost day in coney island, while the gurgling keyboards and swan-dive strings on 'roosevelt island' sounds like an 'outtake from fleetwood mac's tango in the night' (a good thing, btw). there are expected blips of fiery playfulness - pinballing 'bop bop' vocals, backward-masked beats - but this is as straightforwardly evocative as abstract pop gets, with the hazy beauty and fractured narratives of a vintage polaroid slide show. on merge records.description from www.roughtrade.com