Blueberry Boat

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Blueberry Boat
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
The Fiery Furnaces chronology
Gallowsbird's Bark
(2003)		 Blueberry Boat
(2004)		 EP
(2005)

Blueberry Boat is the second concept album from The Fiery Furnaces, released on July 13, 2004.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Quay Cur" – 10:25
  2. "Straight Street" – 5:00
  3. "Blueberry Boat" – 9:09
  4. "Chris Michaels" – 7:53
  5. "Paw Paw Tree" – 4:39
  6. "My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found" – 3:29
  7. "Mason City" – 8:14
  8. "Chief Inspector Blancheflower" – 8:58
  9. "Spaniolated" – 3:21
  10. "1917" – 4:52
  11. "Birdie Brain" – 3:05
  12. "Turning Round" – 2:13
  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.

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Blender 2/5 stars[2]
Delusions of Adequacy (9/10)[3]
Los Angeles Times (8.8/10)[4]
Metacritic (70/100)[5]
Pitchfork Media (9.6/10)[6]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[7]
Stylus Magazine B+[8]
Tiny Mix Tapes 5/5 stars[9]

The album garnered polarized reviews; 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";[10] NME was less enthralled, giving the album a rating of 1 out of 10 and calling it "toe-curlingly unlistenable."[11] Pitchfork placed Blueberry Boat at number 145 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.[12]

[edit] Personnel

  • The Fiery Furnaces – Packaging
  • Eleanor Friedberger – Group member
  • Matthew Friedberger – Producer, group member
  • Samara Lubelski – Violin, engineer, mixing
  • David Muller – Drums
  • Emily Scholnick – Artwork
  • Nicolas Vernhes – Engineer, mixing, computer editing

[edit] References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Blender review
  3. ^ Delusions of Adequacy review
  4. ^ Los Angeles Times review
  5. ^ Metacritic review
  6. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  7. ^ Rolling Stone review
  8. ^ Stylus Magazine review
  9. ^ Tiny Mix Tapes review
  10. ^ [1][dead link]
  11. ^ "Blueberry Boat Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic". Metacritic.com. http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/fieryfurnaces/blueberryboat?q=fiery%20furnaces. Retrieved 2012-01-16. 
  12. ^ Pitchfork staff (September 28, 2009). "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200-151". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7707-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-150-101/. Retrieved October 1, 2009. 

[edit] External links

The Fiery Furnaces
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Live Albums
Matthew Friedberger
Eleanor Friedberger
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