Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes | ||||
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Studio album by The Music Tapes | ||||
Released | August 19, 2008 | |||
Genre | Indie rock, Experimental, Fuzz-folk | |||
Length | 43:21 | |||
Label | Merge Records | |||
The Music Tapes chronology | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Coke Machine Glow | (83%) [1] |
No Ripcord | (8/10) [2] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) [3] |
Prefix Magazine | [4] |
Spin | [5] |
Tiny Mix Tapes | [6] |
Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes is an album by The Music Tapes, a project consisting mainly of Neutral Milk Hotel's Julian Koster, released in 2008 by Merge Records. Koster spent nine years recording the album using mainly antique hardware and such as a 1895 Edison wax cylinder recorder, a 1940's wire recorder, a "state of the art hard drive", and reel to reel tape recorders.[7]
Track listing
- "Saw Pingpong And Orchestra" – 1:23
- "Schedrevka" – 0:54
- "Freeing Song For Reindeer" – 2:59
- "Majesty" – 2:44
- "Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano’s Majestic Haircut)" – 2:45
- "Freeing Song By Reindeer" – 3:13
- "Tornado Longing For Freedom" – 3:57
- "Song For Oceans Falling" – 6:04
- "Kolyada #1" – 0:53
- "The Minister Of Longitude" – 4:46
- "Manifest Destiny" – 3:37
- "Kolyada #2" – 1:00
- "Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape For Clouds)" – 4:47
- "Julian And Grandpa" – 0:31
- "In An Ice Palace" – 3:39
External links
- Official site of The Music Tapes
- Merge Records site for Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
- Streaming mp3s of Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
- Merge Records site for The Music Tapes
References
- ↑ Coke Machine Glow
- ↑ No Ripcord review
- ↑ Pitchfork review
- ↑ Prefix Magazine review
- ↑ Spin Review
- ↑ Tiny Mixtape review
- ↑ Merge Records (2008-07-16). "Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes". Merge Records. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
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