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The Fiery Furnaces will never play your favorite song live. The duo of siblings Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger (plus road band) reformat their catalog for every tour, rendering each song virtually unrecognizable, alternately confusing or delighting audiences. On this two-disc mash-up of various live shows, it mostly overwhelms.

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Brooklyn patron saints Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio helped Robinson record this atmospheric folk-rock album in 2006, but personal demons (addiction, even homelessness) led to the shelving of the project until now. Still, this is no record of redemption. While Robinson is consistently clever and self-deprecating, every line seethes with real pathos.

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Alison Goldfrapp's vocals lie somewhere between the icy tones of Miss Kittin and Debbie Harry's sex-coated purr. In fact, Supernature sounds like a bridge between these two eras. Goldfrapp is what disco would have sounded like had punk not destroyed its cache in the '80s.