The Fourth Fanfare for Neutral Milk Hotel

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The Fourth Fanfare for Neutral Milk Hotel

Published Thursday, August 17, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

So what happens when a band that's only released two albums has inspired twice as many fan-produced tribute albums? You end up with The Giant Egg Leaks Over the Masses: Fanfare for Neutral Milk Hotel, Vol. 4, which covers not NMH songs, but spoken or written words by Jeff Mangum, taking them out of context, and setting them to music. The end product is purported to be "new" Neutral Milk Hotel songs. (Well, yes, the words are composed by Jeff Mangum, that's true.) Creepy? I think so. Although I had to laugh that the first track on the compilation is "Not My Writing," inspired by the recent Mangum hoax.

The morbidly curious can download the compilation at The Carrot-Flower Kingdom. I should say that I haven't listened to it yet and cannot vouch for either its satirical brilliance or slavish stalkerishness.