Name: On Avery Island
Brand: Neutral Milk Hotel

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRG0103.1

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Colour

black

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2009-11-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

673855010311

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Neutral Milk Hotel

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Merge Records

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<i> On Avery Island</i> 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, <i>Song Against Sex</i>, 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. 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.

On Avery Island

Music US