Well … a new record of old songs, but great news nonetheless. According to Neutral Milk Hotel’s offical website, there are currently plans to release a two-volume set of early NMH. This will include music from the early, self-released cassettes, live performances, and unreleased recordings that are currenlty traded on Ebay and scattered across torrent sites. The band wants to do this because of the excessive prices at which bootlegs are currently selling online and elsewhere. They will be available from Orange Twin, Jeff’s label that he has released his Orange Twin Field Works Vol. I, a series of musical/sounds and noices that take you into areas of Bulgaria and the surrounding regions, as well as Jeff’s now classic acoustic performance Live At Jittery Joe’s.
The actual release date is unknown. Therefore, this could be relased in three months or three years. But it’s still good news for NMH fans, as it opens the possiblity that a few jems might still be on Jeff’s eclectic shelf of cassette tapes. The news posting also goes on to mention that Jeff has been working on a collection of short stories and joined the circus and wants to make a movie about snails, so take the news for what its worth. However, with NMH news as rare as a Jeff Mangum sighting, this is big news.
