Kitschfork is back and in full form in yet another classic episode! this time it's to talk about one of the important cult indie bands of the 2000's and the Pitchfork 9.6 that caused a great stir in the world of indie music in 2004 - it's Blueberry Boat by The Fiery Furnaces, of course.

Max and Liz unpack why The Fiery Furnaces were indeed an essential musical force to be reckoned with of the era, even accounting for some of their infamous musical overindulgences, via breaking down their most well-known album. they also make a plea for the kids of today to dig into the Fiery Furnaces discography more - it very much holds up!

buy Blueberry Boat album on bandcamp:

https://thefieryfurnaces.bandcamp.com/album/blueberry-boat

songs featured in the episode (not including the ones on Blueberry Boat):

the fiery furnaces - chris michaels (live) mercury rev - blue and black rogue wave - be kind & remind men at work - land down under crowded house - don't dream (it's over) yeasayer - 2080 matthew friedberger - wisconsin river blues hip tanaka & keiichi suzuki - hospital (from Earthbound) hip tanaka & keiichi suzuki - fourside (from Earthbound) the velvet underground - european son oneida - ceasar's column the fiery furnaces - slavin' away (live)

Max and Liz finally return for their first full episode recording in over a year. they catch up about Pitchfork layoffs, dead music websites of old, the sorry state of culture criticism in general... and the recent death of a very important musical figure.

they then turn to talk about one of 2000's indie's great "What If's", Minneapolis-based Andrew Broder aka Fog, a hip-hop DJ turned multi genre wonder ahead of his time who never really hit the zeitgeist but nonetheless did score a Pitchfork Best New Music with his melancholy 2003 experimental ambient folk album "Ether Teeth". Max and Liz speculate on why he never really seemed to hit as an artist, and why "Ether Teeth" holds up in unexpected and surprising ways.

Andrew Broder/Yoni Wolf podcast interview from 2013 mentioned in the episode: https://soundcloud.com/thewanderingwolf/episode-3-andrew-broder

Fog/Andrew Broder performance and interview clips from 2003: https://www.youtube.com/@work-kh2bo

Andrew Broder's solo bandcamp:

https://andrewbroder.bandcamp.com/

song list:

Cockeyed Cookie Pusher Pneumonia Check Fraud A Word of Advice "Fuel" - Idaho Plumb Dumb What a Day Day See It? See It? The Girl from the Gum Commercial CheerUpCheerily Under a Anvil Tree No Boys Allowed Apologizing to Mystery I Call This Song Old Tyme Dudes Wall Paper Sink or Swim Just a Kid Growing Up

in the second of two previously unreleased episodes recorded in mid-2023, Max and Liz finally talk about Radiohead via perhaps their hardest album to pin down, 2003's Hail to the Thief.

new kitschfork will be coming soon!

liz's bandcamp: https://ellaguro.bandcamp.com/ and soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ella-guro