Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (Deluxe Edition)Neutral Milk Hotels explosive 1996 debut, On Avery Island, receives the deluxe reissue treatment with a yellow and red vinyl 2xLP press, complete with revised artwork and cut at 45RPM. Jeff Mangums 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. Full of rapid fire wordplay with true and

The deluxe LP comes with a 24 page 12‰۝ booklet containing a full and extended essay by Stewart Lee with notes and annotations from Shirley Collins

stretching out

Debs played a pivotal role in bringing the créole music of Guadeloupe and Martinique to a wider international audience

the place was perfect for these kinds of events

Perhaps their most direct and perfect ‘pop’ song to date

traditional forms are reshaped into transcendent pop symphonies

" Hearing a few records he liked and being assured by collectors that they were classified as ‰Û÷Garage‰۪ got him hooked

GRAVITYåÊ 13

they recorded the Bulldozer EP

plug in and BURN

From taking on climate change from the perspective of the climate if the climate tried to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix (“Cry Me An Atmospheric River”) to a driving rock and roll song about taking drugs meant for livestock (“Here Comes the Flood”) to a classic punk attack on treating humans like livestock (“Human Stock Capital”)

Written and recorded over the course of eight months at his home studio in Berkeley