Artist.......: Neutral Milk Hotel
Album........: On Avery Island
Label........: Fire
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-29-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. song against sex 03:41
02. you've passed 02:54
03. someone is waiting 02:32
04. a baby for pree 01:21
05. marching theme 02:59
06. where you ll find me now 04:04
07. avery island 01:48
08. gardenhead-leave me alone 03:14
09. three peaches 04:01
10. naomi 04:53
11. april 8th 02:48
12. pree-sisters swallowing a donkeys eye 13:50
13. everything is... 03:39
14. snow song pt.1 03:28
Runtime 55:12 min
Size 76,3 MB
Release Notes:
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 kickoff, a self-propelled
marvel hopped up on rapid-fire wordplay and a
stunningly ramshackle melody punctuated by bloated
trombone moans. Throughout the record, Jeff
Mangum's wheels threaten to fly off at any time --
his songs are cryptic and crazed, his ideas fast
and furious, and together they force the
home-recording concept out of the basement and into
a brave new world.