On Avery Island Neutral Milk Hotel

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  • Release Date: 03/26/1996
  • Sales Rank: 11,831
  • Label: MERGE RECORDS
  • UPC: 036172940325

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On Avery Island

1LISTENSong Against Sex 3:40
2LISTENYou've Passed 2:53
3LISTENSomeone Is Waiting 2:31
4LISTENA Baby for Pree 1:21
5LISTENMarching Theme 2:58
6LISTENWhere You'll Find Me Now 4:04
7LISTENAvery Island/April 1st 1:48
8LISTENGardenhead/Leave Me Alone 3:13
9LISTENThree Peaches 4:01
10LISTENNaomi 4:53
11LISTENApril 8th 2:47
12LISTENPree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye 13:49

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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. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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