Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes

2008 studio album by The Music Tapes

Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes

Studio album by

The Music Tapes

Released| August 19, 2008
Genre| Indie rock
Length| 43:21
Label| Merge Records
The Music Tapes chronology
| 2nd Imaginary Symphony For Cloudmaking
(2002)  | Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
(2008)  | Mary's Voice
(2012)

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Professional ratingsReview 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 1940s wire recorder, a "state of the art hard drive", and reel to reel tape recorders.[7]

## Track listing

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1. "Saw Pingpong And Orchestra" – 1:23
2. "Schedrevka" – 0:54
3. "Freeing Song For Reindeer" – 2:59
4. "Majesty" – 2:44
5. "Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano’s Majestic Haircut)" – 2:45
6. "Freeing Song By Reindeer" – 3:13
7. "Tornado Longing For Freedom" – 3:57
8. "Song For Oceans Falling" – 6:04
9. "Kolyada #1" – 0:53
10. "The Minister Of Longitude" – 4:46
11. "Manifest Destiny" – 3:37
12. "Kolyada #2" – 1:00
13. "Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape For Clouds)" – 4:47
14. "Julian And Grandpa" – 0:31
15. "In An Ice Palace" – 3:39

## External links

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* 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

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1. ^ Coke Machine Glow Archived 2010-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ No Ripcord review
3. ^ Pitchfork review
4. ^ Prefix Magazine review
5. ^ Spin Review
6. ^ Tiny Mixtape review Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^ Merge Records (2008-07-16). "Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes". Merge Records. Retrieved 2008-07-16.

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* MusicBrainz release group

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