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FIERY FURNACES - Bitter Tea
| Mocking Reviews | | Upon reviewing The Fiery Furnaces' EP last year, Pitchfork's Rob Mitchum half-sarcastically declared "if you don't like Blueberry Boat, I don't like you". You have to really, really love an album to make a claim as bold as that. I think it's a testament to the quality of that record, then, that I can read that sentence and not only think it's a reasonable thing to say, but also to kind of agree with it. In my mind, you either love The Fiery Furnaces unconditionally, or you've simply somehow managed to not have heard them yet....full text |
| | Harmonium | | The Fiery Furnaces’ latest opus, Bitter Tea, begins abruptly with a count-off, signaling the entrance of a shaking, shuffling drum beat and reverberating up-and-down synthesizer. These are the sounds of “In My Little Thatched Hut,” a song about lounging and looking for one’s own true love to return, to come rowing in his rowboat back....full text |
| | Guardian | | This is their fifth full-length album in three years, making the Fiery Furnaces the hardest-working eccentrics in indie-rock - not just in productivity, but in the inventiveness and density of the private code in which Chicago siblings Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger write their songs....full text |
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