Neutral Milk Hotel
On Avery Island

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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 .a fuzzy masterpiece of experimental lo-fi recording - Allmusic.com / Finally comes a reissue for the fuzzy, literate and imaginative debut for Jeff Mangum’s Neutral Milk Hotel, On Avery Island. Full of rapid-fire wordplay with true and heartfelt experimentation, both ambitious and eclectic, it’s not hard to see why this has been such an influential album. Part of the fabled Elephant 6 collective Neutral Milk Hotel won over many a music critic with this cult classic released in 1996. The band are recognized as one of the most influential alternative acts to come out of the mid-90s and sowed the seeds for everything from anti-folk to the likes of Arcade Fire, Caribou and even Franz Ferdinand. On its original release, this album ranked #35 in the annual Village Voice Jazz & Pop Critics' Poll. Also, Spin proclaimed this album one of the ten best "you didn't hear" of 1996. Delux repackaging on 180g vinyl. includes the ‘Everything Is’ single and b-side ‘Snow Song Pt.1’  from the original 7” release. "10/10 - [a] gem" VICE / “Still Sounds Great” UNCUT.

Tracks :

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

1. Naomi
2. April 8th 
3. Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye
4. Everything Is
5. Snow Song Pt. 1