Furr, released in 2008, is the fourth album

Album

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 by Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental alternative country/folk band signed to Sub Pop Records. Formed in 2000, the band currently operates as a sextet, with Eric Earley , Erik Menteer , Brian Adrian Koch , Michael VanPelt , and Marty Marquis...

. The album was listed at #13 on Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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's 50 Best Albums of 2008, and the title track made #4 on Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

's 100 Best Singles of 2008. Music videos were made for the album's two singles, "Furr" and "Black River Killer".

Track listing

All songs written by Eric Earley.

Critical reception

Critical response to the album was overwhelmingly favorable. Rolling Stone gave Furr four-out-of-five stars and called it "an engaging album full of rootsy beauty." Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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found it to be "a perfect fall soundtrack rife with woodsy imagery." Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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, in an article recommending what to exchange unwanted Christmas gifts for, said the album was "part harmony-laden tambourine jangle, part British Invasion

British Invasion

The British Invasion is a term used to describe the large number of rock and roll, beat, rock, and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States during the time period from 1964 through 1966.- Background :...

guitar charm, and fully worth braving brutal return lines at the mall."