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
Length	76:15
Label	Rough Trade
Producer(s)	Matthew Friedberger , Nicolas Vernhes
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (9.6/10) link
The Fiery Furnaces chronology
Gallowsbird's Bark (2003)	Blueberry Boat (2004)	EP (2005)

Blueberry Boat is the second, highly conceptual album from The Fiery Furnaces.

[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

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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 only Series the Chicago White Sox had won at the point this album was released.