Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes

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]

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)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The A.V. Club	B+[3]
Christgau’s Consumer Guide	[4]
Cokemachineglow	83%[5]
Now	[6]
Pitchfork	7.9/10[7]
Spin	[8]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[9]

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

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