Blueberry Boat

by The Fiery Furnaces

Blueberry Boat cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 July 2004
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:16:08
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Friedberger siblings deliver a sprawling, complex epic with 'Blueberry Boat'. The songs are long, multi-part suites filled with shifting time signatures and bizarre nautical lyrics. It is a polarizing, ambitious work of indie prog.

Genres

Descriptors: aquatic, avant-garde, complex, progressive, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Quay Cur (10:25)
  2. Straight Street (05:00)
  3. Blueberry Boat (09:09)
  4. Chris Michaels (07:53)
  5. Paw Paw Tree (04:39)
  6. My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found (03:29)
  7. Mason City (08:14)
  8. Chief Inspector Blancheflower (08:58)
  9. Spaniolated (03:21)
  10. 1917 (04:52)
  11. Birdie Brain (03:05)
  12. Turning Round (02:13)
  13. Wolf Notes (04:50)

Credits

  • Emily Scholnick - artwork
  • Eleanor Friedberger - band [the fiery furnaces are]
  • Matthew Friedberger - band [the fiery furnaces are]
  • Nicolas Vernhes - drums [drum kit doubling on bits of]
  • David Muller - drums [proper drum kit playing on bits of]
  • The Fiery Furnaces - graphic design [package by]
  • Unknown Graphic Services - graphic design [package by]
  • Samara Lubelski - recorded by

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