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| Pitchfork |
 If you were around when Neutral Milk Hotel were a working band, it would have been difficult to predict the stature they'd later acquire in the independent rock sphere. That they were great, and special, was clear to a lot of people following indie rock, but they didn't necessarily seem like the kind of group that would develop into something amounting to a "legend." For one thing, they were visible during the mid and late 1990s, doing exactly the same kinds of things other indie rock bands were doing. They were on Merge, putting out albums, EPs, and singles, touring the same venues as young bands like Modest Mouse and Helium. They weren't under-appreciated and were by no means obscure; and the fact that they were part of a "scene" that made for such great copy-- the Elephant 6 Recording Company-- meant they got their share of attention in the indie music press.But then they went away. Jeff Mangum, the project's creative force, stopped releasing new music and quit playing shows. Yet unlike the followers of many bands from that time who moved on, his fans didn't trickle away. Instead, in place of a working band with a growing catalog, Neutral Milk Hotel became an absent band with a growing cult. People were rediscovering this music, and the median age of the Neutral Milk Hotel obsessive has continued to hover in the early twenties. Since Mangum's return to performing, first as part of the Elephant 6 reunion in 2008 and then with a slate of shows last year, Neutral Milk Hotel started to seem like something that existed in the present tense again. Possibly serving as a sort of tribute to this moment, Mangum has released this limited vinyl-only box set, which collects almost all of the material released under the Neutral Milk Hotel name and adds 15 additional rare and unreleased tracks....full text |
| Latimes |
| A few years after some ponderous "What the heck happened to Jeff Mangum?" magazine pieces, the Neutral Milk Hotel frontman has, at last, made recent, tenative steps back into the public with a few solo shows and booking an installment of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival. Today he also made fans of his singularly weird and moving folk around $88 poorer with an announcement of a massive vinyl box set that will contain his band's entire recorded output and a slew of unreleased recordings and art. The box set, out in November but available for pre-order now, includes NMH's two full-lengths (1996's "On Avery Island" and 1997's landmark "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"), the "Everything Is" EP with extra tracks, a disc of unreleased acoustic recordings, two 7-inch singles, a picture disc of the single "Holland, 1945" and two art prints taken from "Aeroplane" and the box set's cover. Mangum is also selling one-off handmade drawings for $15. If you still feel the waterworks coming on by the time you get to "Two Headed Boy Pt. 2," get on it now -- the band's website has been sporadically crashing with orders all day....full text |
| Pastemagazine |
| Rolling Stone reported today that Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum will be releasing a vinyl-only box set that compiles the group’s entire catalog, along with 15 previously unreleased tracks. The massive box set includes two 12” albums (On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea), two 10” records (The Everything Is EP and Ferris Wheel on Fire EP, with both albums including bonus tracks), two 7" records (Little Birds and You’ve Passed/Where You’ll Find Me Now), and one 7” picture disc. The box set also includes a couple of posters....full text |
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