This song is so good. It's hitting the same notes as The New Pornographers at their best, with a groovy funky little swivel in it. It's good! Just listen to it.

But I'll warn you, if you like this song and you expect the rest of its album to sound anything like it, you will be sorely disappointed. The album, "Exactly As It Seems", is all over the place. It opens with house music, then turns into some funky disco stuff that simply does not work very well in my opinion, and never really gets over how quirky it thinks it is. I'm all for eclectic bands melding genres together in bursts of joyful experimentation (I did live through the era in which people unironically liked The Fiery Furnaces, a band Home Counties is undoubtedly inspired by), but there's just something about this album that starts to chafe.

But damn, this song is fun! In comparison to the rest of the album, it's low energy and boring, but I guess that's just who I am now, low energy and boring.

The Fiery Furnaces are a hard band to like. Evidence of this is easy to find: just download their live album, Remember and try to listen to it. Admittedly it's not their live show unfiltered, the fiddled with it in the studio and made it even more labyrinthine and inaccessible than their live shows already approach. After Blueberry Boat they made me really excited, though at times discordant and annoying, I figured their next album would be pure genius. Unfortunately, Rehearsing My Choir followed Bruce Springsteen's format of following up a more accessible record with one that is mostly indecipherable and moody. Disappointment consumed me and I have not since recovered, albums later left unlistened and lonely in a folder deep within the bowels of my computer.

(DID YOU SEE THAT? I just wrote a bit like Pitchfork! I am so fucking cool!)

Blueberry Boat, however, is no less a work of genius regardless of the sorrow that later material summons. This song, and a few others (like My Dog Was Lost But Now It's Found and, uh,... I'm sure there's more), are even worth listening to out of context, though the majority of the album is definitely something that needs to be enjoyed in one full long play.

I'd call this "neo-prog" if I had a choice.