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| 2 by Rolling Stone |
New York brother-sister
act tosses off raggedy-ass indie-rock collages and other random blurts
to its credit and to its detriment, the Fiery Furnaces' second album may prove to be one of the more pola... |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
The Fiery Furnaces have made one of the most ambitious and, quite likely, one of the best records of 2004. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
The exuberant overload of Blueberry Boat will thrill and transport you with the ineluctable force of a great children's story, one whose execution matches its imagination. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
The Friedbergers have made a cogent statement that leaves most other contemporary acts in the dust. |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
Honestly, there is no precedent for this album. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
It’s both an oddly comforting and exhilarating trip. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
While it may not be the orgiastic smorgasbord of pop delicacies The Fiery Furnaces aimed for, it's nonetheless one of the most ambitious pop albums released this year. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
In the end, that's the best gift the Furnaces have to offer, the simple power of their own joyful racket and clatter, the pure holy hell they always seem to raise. |
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| n/a by newyorkmetro.com |
The band take their experimental ethos even further without sacrificing the emotional power of their debut. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
Listening to 'Blueberry Boat' is a little like careening around an enormous multicoloured funfair - joyous, unpredictable, kaleidoscopic, tacky, and at times scary and sinister, sometimes all in the space of one song. But even if it occasionally makes you sick, it’s a thrilling ride nonetheless. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
Their inventive, experimental-leaning music dances through history, passing from blues to rock 'n' roll to pop to experimental to something uniquely theirs. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Although the early part of Blueberry Boat is disjointed and difficult to absorb the album is still a triumph. |
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| n/a by www.nytimes.com |
It's deeply ambitious, but to listen to it you'd think making music like this was as easy for them as falling off a log. [18 Jul 2004] |
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| n/a by avclub.theonion.com |
In the end, this suite of suites sounds too inherently disorienting, however thrilling its fragments, and however entertaining it is to hear the Friedbergers' wordy, fantastical non sequiturs. |
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| n/a by www.noripcord.com |
There’s just so much going on throughout that you can’t stop listening. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
"Blueberry Boat" will confuse first-timers with its cartoonish feel, but repeated listens start to reveal the subtle complexities that each song brings to the table, regardless of their seemingly short attention spans. |
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| n/a by www.splendidezine.com |
This is a big, sprawling, difficult but rewarding album, from a band whose reach exceeds its grasp, but only by a little. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
Length is where the album fails. |
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| n/a by Junkmedia |
The problem with Blueberry Boat is that, while it's a musical marvel, it's not an album that I'll keep listening to. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
Blueberry Boat is a frustrating, niggling, great idea of a record. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
A crashing disappointment. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
It’s an ambitious album, but only in the sense that most of the songs are outrageously long and feature approximately eighteen gratuitous time signatures each. |
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