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- Date Released: March 26, 1996
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Merge Records
The debut record from Jeff Mangum and friends.
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We Say...
Jeff Mangum's band only made two studio albums and then vanished into the realm of mystique. Neutral Milk Hotel was affiliated with the Elephant 6 collective, a loose group of psychedelic bands that traded home-recorded tapes and contributed to each other's projects. On this debut, Mangum was backed up by members of the Apples in Stereo, and they cascaded cheap keyboards, fuzzboxes, xylophones and trombones in march formation around his keening voice, like a funeral procession in a toy factory. He's a magnificent, almost prayerful songwriter, and although In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is probably NMH's better-loved record, On Avery Island’s surreal imagery and cascading energy are a joy.
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They Say...
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.
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Song Against Sex |
3:40 |
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| 02. | |
You've Passed |
2:54 |
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| 03. | |
Someone Is Waiting |
2:31 |
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| 04. | |
A Baby For Pree |
1:21 |
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| 05. | |
Marching Theme |
2:58 |
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| 06. | |
Where You'll Find Me Now |
4:04 |
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| 07. | |
Avery Island / April 1st |
1:48 |
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| 08. | |
Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone |
3:14 |
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| 09. | |
Three Peaches |
4:01 |
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| 10. | |
Naomi |
4:53 |
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| 11. | |
April 8th |
2:47 |
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| 12. | |
Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye |
13:49 |
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12 Total Tracks, 48:00 Total Length
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Credits
- Neutral Milk Hotel - Main Performer // Jeff Mangum - Organ // Jeff Mangum - Guitar // Jeff Mangum - Drums // Jeff Mangum - Vocals // Jeff Mangum - Xylophone // Jeff Mangum - Multi Instruments // Jeff Mangum - Bells // Jeff Mangum - Tape // Jeff Mangum - ? // Jeff Mangum - Cover Design // Jeff Mangum - Casio // Robert Schneider - Organ // Robert Schneider - Xylophone // Robert Schneider - Horn Arrangements // Robert Schneider - Fuzz Bass // Rick Benjamin - Trombone // Hilarie Sidney - Multi Instruments // Aaron Reedy - Multi Instruments // Lisa Janssen - Multi Instruments // Lisa Janssen - Fuzz Bass
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