Neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island (Vinyl) TS 27/01/23 and the 1974 reissue of

and the 1974 reissue of Larry Coryell's Spaces

A mesmerising half-finished dirge that is somehow a gentle

Gavin MacKillop is recruited as producer

I Have Made a Place

Neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island (Vinyl) TS 27/01/23 and the 1974 reissue ofLike 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,