Yes, you read that correctly.

According to Pitchfork.com, the Brooklyn via Chicago art-rock sibling outfit The Fiery Furnaces are set to release a cover album of their latest effort I’m Going Away…with a twist.

Furnaces’ masterminds Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger will each release their own version of the guitar and piano rock-driven I’m Going Away, which was easily their most accessible and stream-lined release. Knowing these two’s penchant for difficult, usually keyboard or organ driven, art rock mash ups, these new I’m Going Away’s should be anything but accessible.

These separate and new versions will be released in two parts starting in September.

More details, including a call to fans to create their own versions of I’m Going Away tracks, straight from thefieryfurnaces.com:

Matthew and Eleanor are taking time out from watching season two of Mad Men to record separate, complete, cover, tribute, albums, of, to, I’m Going Away. Only the words will remain the same. Though in Eleanor’s case, the singer remains the same. The song, never. Or mostly never.

In other words: complete cover-album versions of the Fiery Furnaces by the Fiery Furnaces. Or The Fiery Furnaces. By the two of them, separately. To be released in two parts, together.

Six songs by one with six by the other. And then another six by six. The first batch comes out sometime in New York City– meaning September.

Tell us when your cover version will come out. Write to thefieryfurnacesemail@gmail.com.

Before their latest release, I’m Going Away, The Fiery Furnaces’ last record was an over-stuffed 51-track, song spliced and mind numbing live album titled Remember. And before that was 2007’s hodgepodge of fuzzy guitars, psychedelic organs and off-kilter melodies, Widow City. So while the term “experimental” might be played out as a musical descriptor, The Fiery Furnaces hardly went out of their way to do anything near the realm of normal. Until now, that is.

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