There's a sadness in these songs that floats in from behind the music, hiding in the melody, convincing you that you're the one feeling all weepy. Don't be fooled - it's not you, it's them. Neutral Milk Hotel, and more importantly singer and songwriter Jeff Mangum, have grasped the nostalgic, melancholic powers of melody with an ease that would turn Brian Wilson green. Like Wilson, Mangum sings of his lost childhood, albeit through surreal, foggy memories that recall the confusion as well as the innocen   [ read more ]

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Like their Elephant 6 labelmates and kindred spirits Olivia Tremor Control's Music From the Unrealized Film Script 'Dusk at Cubist Castle,' Neutral Milk Hotel's debut, 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,   [ read more ]

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REISSUE. This is a reissue of the classic EP with an added previously unreleased bonus track, "Tuesday Moon," from the same era. The record was originally released by Fire Records in Europe only. Many of the tracks off this record have multiple parts making this four song EP almost the length of a full album. It captures the early sounds of Neutral Milk Hotel with amazing production qualities similar to the band's first full length album, On Avery Island. In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea has bee   [ read more ]

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