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    Jun 19, 2020 2 minutes
    ROB MITCHUM

    “THE word ‘reunion’ makes me cringe,” says Eleanor Friedberger. “Maybe we want to replace ‘reunion’ with ‘rendezvous’,” her brother Matthew suggests. “It sounds exciting, right?”

    When a band is a brother-sister project, it’s not really possible to break up. Since their last show as The Fiery Furnaces in 2011, Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger haven’t played much together, but they’re

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