Blueberry Boat
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| Blueberry Boat | |||||
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| Studio album by The Fiery Furnaces | |||||
| Released | July 13, 2004 | ||||
| Recorded | 2004 | ||||
| Genre | Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Experimental Rock | ||||
| Length | 76:09 | ||||
| Label | Rough Trade | ||||
| Producer | Matthew Friedberger , Nicolas Vernhes | ||||
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Blueberry Boat is the second, highly conceptual album from The Fiery Furnaces, released July 13, 2004.
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[edit] Track listing
- "Quay Cur" – 10:25
- "Straight Street" – 5:00
- "Blueberry Boat" – 9:09
- "Chris Michaels" – 7:53
- "Paw Paw Tree" – 4:39
- "My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found" – 3:29
- "Mason City" – 8:14
- "Chief Inspector Blancheflower" – 8:58
- "Spaniolated" – 3:21
- "1917" – 4:52
- "Birdie Brain" – 3:05
- "Turning Round" – 2:13
- "Wolf Notes" – 4:51
[edit] Additional information
More than twenty different instruments were used in the creation of this album, including the sitar, which was substituted for guitar on some songs. Keyboards, guitars, and drums are the main instruments used. As with all Fiery Furnaces releases, Eleanor Friedberger provides most of the vocals, with her brother Matt adding to a few songs. Matt is considered the main instrumentalist for the band, while both Friedbergers share lyrical duties.
Five songs on the album are more than seven and a half minutes long, with the longest stretching over ten minutes. Many of the songs seem to take the form of two or more parts; if separated into distinct tracks, this LP would contain more than thirty articles of music.[citation needed]
The song "Straight Street" references the biblical "street called straight" in Damascus. "1917" features references to the 1917 World Series, the most recent series that the Chicago White Sox had won at the point this album was released.
[edit] Critical reception
The album received extremely mixed critical reception; Pitchfork Media gave it a rating of 9.6 out of 10, calling it "a record for the overgrown part of our brain that craves engrossing complexity"[1]; NME was less enthralled, giving the album a rating of 1 out of 10 and calling it "toe-curlingly unlistenable."[2]
[edit] External links
- Review and Summary of Album's Concept The High Hat
- Unfinished but Detailed Analysis of Album Concept Clap Clap Blog (October 17, 2005) entry
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