Gallowsbird's Bark (studio album)
by The Fiery Furnaces
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The Fiery Furnaces bestography
Gallowsbird's Bark is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by The Fiery Furnaces on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Fiery Furnaces is Blueberry Boat which is ranked number 3190 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 470.
(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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85/100  | 09/27/2025 14:55 |  ExTeaSea | | 83/100 |
60/100 | 08/10/2025 11:05 | TonySayers61 | | 64/100 |
100/100 | 03/27/2024 08:03 |  CassidyInc | | 100/100 |
70/100 | 08/27/2023 08:12 | RemainInLight | | 36/100 |
70/100 | 08/22/2023 07:25 |  NoisyBeast | | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.4/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.6.
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Hah, I might have been a bit too quick to declare Bitter Tea as my favourite FF album. I decided to give this one another listen afterwards, and now I'm not sure anymore.. While I think BT has the best songs by the band, this album flows incredibly from start to finish, and it's just ridiculously fun to listen to. The final stretch of songs (especially the duo Tropical Ice-Land - Rub-Alcohol Blues) in particular makes this album so great for me.
A cross between a deconstructed Rolling Stones, the ramshackle anarchy of The Holy Modal Rounders, the twisted Delta blues of the Magic Band and the surreal cabaret of Frank Zappa, The Fiery Furnaces create a multi-faceted style that has few precedents. The lead vocals of Eleonor Friedberger are from the Janis Joplin/Patti Smith shaman-preacher tradition. This album is bursting with chaotic creativity and soars to heights that the overrated White Stripes (whose aesthetic follows a similar trajectory) could only aspire to.
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