Neutral Milk Hotel
On Avery Island
Label ©  Merge Records
Release Year  1995
Length  48:00
Genre  Alternative
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  N-0027
Bitrate  ~205 Kbps
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Song Against Sex  
       3:40  
      2.  
      		 You've Passed  
       2:54  
      3.  
      		 Someone Is Waiting  
       2:31  
      4.  
      		 A Baby For Pree  
       1:21  
      5.  
      		 Marching Theme  
       2:58  
      6.  
      		 Where You'll Find Me Now  
       4:04  
      7.  
      		 Avery Island April 1St  
       1:48  
      8.  
      		 Garden Head Leave Me Alone  
       3:14  
      9.  
      		 Three Peaches  
       4:01  
      10.  
      		 Naomi  
       4:53  
      11.  
      		 April 18Th  
       2:47  
      12.  
      		 Pree Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye  
       13:49  
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      Review by Jason Ankeny

      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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