| Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes | ||||
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| Studio album by The Music Tapes | ||||
| Released | August 19, 2008 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 43:21 | |||
| Label | Merge Records | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Coke Machine Glow | (83%) |
| No Ripcord | (8/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) |
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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.