Blueberry Boat

Blueberry Boat

Infobox Album
Name = Blueberry Boat
Type = Album
Artist = 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
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tjdxlffeacqw link]
*"Blender" Rating|2|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2545 link]
* Delusions of Adequacy (9/10) [http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewid=4443 link]
* Los Angeles Times (8.8/10) [http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-ca-rackkelly22aug22,2,3930924.htmlstory?coll=cl-music-features link]
* Metacritic (70/100) [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/fieryfurnaces/blueberryboat link]
*Pitchfork Media (9.6/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17929/Fiery_Furnaces_Blueberry_Boat link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thefieryfurnaces/albums/album/6235048/review/6486773/blueberry_boat link]
* Stylus Magazine (B+) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=2145 link]
* Tiny Mix Tapes Rating|5|5 [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/f/fiery_furnaces.htm link]
Last album = "Gallowsbird's Bark" (2003)
This album = "Blueberry Boat" (2004)
Next album = "EP" (2005)

"Blueberry Boat" is the second, highly conceptual album from The Fiery Furnaces, released July 13, 2004.

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

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.Fact|date=March 2007

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.

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" [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17929-blueberry-boat?artist_title=17929-blueberry-boat] ; NME was less enthralled, giving the album a rating of 1 out of 10 and calling it "toe-curlingly unlistenable." [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/fieryfurnaces/blueberryboat?q=fiery%20furnaces]

External links

* [http://www.thehighhat.com/PopsClicks/005/blueberry.html Review and Summary of Album's Concept] The High Hat
* [http://claps.blogspot.com/2005_10_16_claps_archive.html Unfinished but Detailed Analysis of Album Concept] Clap Clap Blog (October 17 2005) entry


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