Blueberry Boat

The amazing follow-up to their beloved, critically acclaimed debut, Gallowsbird's Bark. Matthew Friedberger, one half of the brother-sister folk-pop duo, describes Blueberry Boat as sounding like "a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant pit orchestra." But better. A lot better. Here the Furnaces give us 74 minutes of charming, catchy, clunky, sprawling, saloon-piano-heavy, pop-psych mini-epics, some clocking in at eight minutes. "After making one of last year's best albums -- the blues-folk-rock amalgam Gallowsbird's Bark -- this brother-sister duo have blown out their stylistic borders and swept in art-rock, show tunes, classical music and a highbrow-lowbrow sensibility that manifests itself as something that could be called 'avant-garage.' The result is this nine-minute musical funhouse of a title track from what has the potential to be one of this year's best albums." --John Sakamoto, EyeWeekly