Neutral Milk Hotel
On Avery Island

809236193636
(P) 1996 (2010) Fire [1098]

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Printed inner sleeve and free download card for the album + 2 bonus tracks.

Part of the Elephant 6 family (a collective of lo-fi indie bands from the nineties that included The Apples In Stereo and Olivia Tremor Control), Neutral Milk Hotel is the lo-fi brainchild of Louisiana-native Jeff Mangum. 1996's On Avery Island is an inscrutable concept album, a chronicle of an insular world told in a remarkably universal language. A fuzzy masterpiece of experimental lo-fi recording, the album wraps its ragged pop songs in ribbons of loops, marching-band squawks, and Casio noodling the opener, "Song Against Sex," is as much a manifesto as a kick-off, a self-propelled marvel hopped up on rapid-fire wordplay and a stunningly ramshackle melody punctuated by bloated trombone moans. [...more...]

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