Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery IslandDouble vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes insert and digital download. Jeff Mangum creates a world of his own on this amazing 1996 debut from Neutral Milk Hotel. On Avery Island is full of trombone, keyboards, overdriven acoustics, and beautiful songs. On this anniversary reissue, the complete version of "Pree Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye" as originally intended completes the album.

call the bear-y best - Norm of the North

and cracked it open to find a perfectly preserved man

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Sung 93% in Akkadian by David

flashes of light

And through the vivid storytelling of "Long Bus Ride" and "Zucchini" to the Jabberwockyan wordplay of "Science Fiction" and the raucous confessional "Cannabis

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Scott Haze

The story is self-referential on purpose: it speaks to the absurdity of ego

Recorded with and produced by the legendary Booker T

2021 at the Prinzregententheater in Munich

Beast Must Regret Nothing