Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
| Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 19, 2008 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 43:21 | |||
| Label | Merge Records | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| Christgau’s Consumer Guide | |
| Cokemachineglow | 83% |
| Now | |
| Pitchfork | 7.9/10 |
| Spin | |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | |
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.