More vintage Neutral Milk Hotel videos are circulating today from YouTube user goldenpuppy1. Two weeks ago Merge Records posted two lo-fi but still spectacular videos of the reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel playing songs live at New York's Knitting Factory in 1998. Those fuzzy, VHS-quality videos feature solo performances from frontman Jeff Mangum. Now we've got more to listen to and watch during the holiday season to go along with those recent vinyl reissues of 1996's On Avery Island and 1998's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
The same user who posted the previous clips has added three more. Unlike the previous ones, these get Mangum's band in the mix. On the eight-minute folk epic "Oh Comely," multi-instrumentalist Julian Koster joins him on musical saw. The rest of the band joins in for "The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3" and "The Fool.". Their psychedelic, funereal mélange of brass, accordion, and sawed banjo tickle the ears but also remind us of the large hole this disbanded group left in the 2000s.
All these videos just make us miss NMH that much more. More warbled footage or a reunion tour is desperately requested. (Via P4K.)
