[ Fire Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 8 August 2011
This item is currently out of stock. It may take 6 or more weeks to obtain from when you place your order as this is a specialist product.
Neutral Milk Hotel's debut is an inscrutable concept album, a chronicle of an insular world told in a remarkably universal language.
"Neutral Milk Hotel's debut 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".
(allmusic.com - thanks!)
1. Song Against Sex
2. You've Passed
3. Someone Is Waiting
4. A Baby For Pree
5. Marching Theme
6. Where You'll Find Me Now
7. Avery Island / April 1st
8. Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone
9. Three Peaches
10. Naomi
11. April 8th
12. Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye
13. Everything Is
14. Snow Song Pt. 1.