Bitter Tea
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| Studio album by The Fiery Furnaces | ||||
| Released | April 18, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
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| Length | 72:23 | |||
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Fat Possum (US) Rough Trade (UK) |
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| Producer | Matthew Friedberger | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |
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| The A.V. Club | B |
| Blender |
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| Pitchfork Media |
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| Tiny Mix Tapes |
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Bitter Tea is the fifth full-length album by The Fiery Furnaces, released on April 18, 2006 via Fat Possum in the U.S and Rough Trade in the UK. After it leaked onto the internet on February 22, the band immediately started selling the CD on tour.
The album contains several instances of backmasking throughout.
Bitter Tea received generally positive reviews that were less polarized than their previous two proper albums, Blueberry Boat and Rehearsing My Choir. At Pitchfork Media, Mark Richardson praised the "sweet, undeniable melody" of "Teach Me Sweetheart" and the poppy likeability of "Benton Harbor Blues." Heather Phares at Allmusic criticized the album for being too long and "oddly diluted," but admitted that "even if all the songs aren't uniformly great, there's something interesting about each of them."
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