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"It’s not unusual for a live album to give you that I-guess-you-had-to-be-there feeling, only no one can be in several places in time and space at once. Except Dr Emmett Brown."

Prog. I wasn't expecting the metal-rock-Rush-prog-Talking Head-Zappa-Sabbath explosion that I and about 200 of my closest friends got last night. The whole show was one long collagist medley. The songs cannonballing illogically from lightning-bolt prog to metal-dipped ragtime to free-form indie-rock riffing on spoken-word cabaret. “I’m not used to talking between songs,” said Eleanor Friedberger, lead singer of The Fiery Furnaces. Brother. Sister. Brother. Sister. Prog. Eleanor was a brilliant...