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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Bitter Tea
| Type = studio
| Artist = [[The Fiery Furnaces]]
| Cover =
| Released = [[April 18]], [[2006]]
| Recorded = 2005
| Genre = [[Indie rock]], [[experimental rock]]
| Length = 72:23
| Label = [[Fat Possum Records|Fat Possum]]
| Producer = [[Matthew Friedberger]]
| Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hl6zefuk5gf8 link]
*''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' {{rating-5|3}} [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=3813 link]
*''[[PopMatters]]'' (7/10) [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/the_fiery_furnaces_bitter_tea/ link]
*[[Tiny Mix Tapes]] 4/5 [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/f/fiery_furnaces.htm link]
*[[Pitchfork Media]] (7.6/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17932/Fiery_Furnaces_Bitter_Tea link]
*[[The A.V. Club]] (B) [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/47819]
| Last album = ''[[Rehearsing My Choir]]''<br />(2005)
| This album = '''''Bitter Tea'''''<br />(2006)
| Next album = ''[[Widow City]]''<br />(2007)
}}
'''''Bitter Tea''''' is the fifth full-length album by [[The Fiery Furnaces]], released on April 18th, 2006 via [[Fat Possum Records|Fat Possum]] in the U.S and [[Rough Trade Records|Rough Trade]] in the UK. After it leaked onto the internet on February 22nd, the band immediately started selling the CD on tour.
==Track listing==
# "In My Little Thatched Hut" – 4:13
# "I'm in No Mood" – 3:39
# "Black-Hearted Boy" – 5:11
# "Bitter Tea" – 5:45
# "Teach Me Sweetheart" – 5:56
# "Waiting to Know You" – 4:01
# "The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry" – 5:44
# "Oh Sweet Woods" – 5:25
# "Borneo" – 4:17
# "Police Sweater Blood Vow" – 2:53
# "Nevers" – 5:02
# "Benton Harbor Blues" – 7:23
# "Whistle Rhapsody" – 4:20
# "Nevers (Reprise)" (unlisted) – 5:14
# "[[Benton Harbor Blues|Benton Harbor Blues (Reprise)]]" (unlisted) – 3:13
==Backmasking==
The album contains several instances of [[backmasking]] throughout.
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! width=20%| Song title
! width=10%| Time of backmasking
! width=45%| Backwards lyrics
! width=25%| Comments
|-
| <span id="A" />"In My Little Thatched Hut"
| 2:59
| "Tears of joy, tears of joy, tears of joy, tears of joy..."
|
|-
| "I'm in No Mood"
| 2:10
| "And the pin in my hair was stuck in my head. I didn’t undress for bed. I was so drunk last night." "I swear the pin in my hair got stuck in my head. I didn't even undress for bed. I was so drunk last night."
|
|-
| "Black-hearted Boy"
| 2:56-3:56
| "See the smoke from your kiln, pine boughs burn the bricks dead hard in their fog as I stand cold with my back broke by the bog. Find your cross-cut saw, come blunt and jagged dry and try cut my tongue out to keep on your wall up high. I tipped my toe on the bamboo strip; I took stone honey in exchange for my rags. Don't dare paint your board moonlight white. Go dangle your fish hook out in the gutter again."
|
|-
| "The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry"
| Entire song, end to beginning
| "I thought myself an unworthy thing, despairing of my case all the time boys. I thought myself an unworthy thing, despairing of my case all the time boys. Damn it all, damn it all to hell. Damn it all, damn it all."
| Much of the vocal sounds backwards when played forward.
|-
| "Oh Sweet Woods"
| 0:44 and 3:01
| "Oh sweet woods of delight, Oh solitariness. Farewell direction, farewell all affection."
|
|-
|"Nevers"
|
|See comments
| The vocals switch between backwards and forwards even within one line of lyrics. Full lyrics are available at the Fiery Furnaces' official site [http://www.fieryfurnacesforum.com/site/lyrics/bitter-tea/]
|-
| "Benton Harbor Blues"
| 3:45
| See comments
| The backmasked parts are gibberish phrases played backward and forward simultaneously, so it sounds the same when played backwards and forwards.
|}
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