Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes

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Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
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Studio album by
The Music Tapes
ReleasedAugust 19, 2008
Genre Indie rock
Length43:21
Label Merge Records
The Music Tapes chronology
2nd Imaginary Symphony For Cloudmaking
(2002)		Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
(2008)		 Mary's Voice
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 83/100 [1]
Review scores
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The A.V. Club B+ [3]
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Cokemachineglow 83% [5]
Now Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 7.9/10 [7]
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Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]

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. [10]

Contents

Track listing

  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

References

  1. ↑ "Reviews for Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes by The Music Tapes". Metacritic . Retrieved May 5, 2025.
  2. ↑ Hoffman, K. Ross (August 19, 2008). "Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes -The Music Tapes". AllMusic . Retrieved May 5, 2025.
  3. ↑ Battaglia, Andy (September 2, 2008). "The Music Tapes: Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornadoes". The A.V. Club . Retrieved May 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "The Music Tapes". Robert Christgau . Retrieved May 5, 2025.
  5. ↑ Coke Machine Glow Archived 2010-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Terefenko, Paul (March 4, 2008). "Disc Review - The Music Tapes". Now . Retrieved May 5, 2025.
  7. ↑ Pitchfork review
  8. ↑ Spin Review
  9. ↑ Tiny Mixtape review Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Merge Records (2008-07-16). "Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes". Merge Records . Retrieved 2008-07-16.
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