Indie rockin’ two piece Fiery Furnaces has lashed out with a bizarre rant at Radiohead.
Radiohead are one of the most respected groups on the planet. Returning with their new album ‘In Rainbows’ on 2007 they circumvented the entire music industry by releasing it themselves as a pay what you like download.
Since then the band have been showered in Grammy awards, Mercury nominations and the odd chart topping placement or two. However amid the ocean of praise lurks a few icebergs of dissent looming towards the good ship Radiohead.
Fiery Furnaces are the latest group to lock horns with the Oxford giants, with singer Matthew Friedberger ranting about their decision to release the track ‘Harry Patch’. A tribute to Britain’s last surviving First World War veteran, it seems to have rubbed the Brooklyn duo up the wrong way.
“‘Oh, please listen to our new song about Harry Patch’,” Friedberger ranted to Spinner. “Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool. That is bogus. That’s a put-on. That’s a branding technique and Radiohead have their brand that they’re popular and intelligent. So they have a song about Harry Patch.”
However in a bizarre twist Fiery Furnaces later claimed that they completely misunderstood what the song what about. In a statement the band’s publicist claimed that Friedberger thought the song was about Harry Partch, the American composer and custom instrument maker.
Ironically, later in the interview Matthew Friedberger mused on the possibility of looking foolish. “My wife says I am being very rude,” the guitarist said.
“She doesn’t like me insulting Radiohead. She’s afraid they will send their lackeys through the computer to sabotage us. But they needn’t worry, we are a band that sabotages ourselves.”