With Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was born after the end of Synthetic Flying Machine, with an original line-up of Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss on guitar and bass and Jeff Mangum on drums. Around 1995 Mangum left Synthetic Flying Machine to focus on his own songs. A year of intensive songwriting (some of it accomplished, according to Mangum, while he was living in a haunted closet) and recording in Denver, Colorado with Robert Schneider at his Pet Sounds Recording Studio resulted in his debut album, On Avery Island, released in 1996, consisting mostly of Schneider and Mangum playing with friends. Mangum eventually expanded the line up of Neutral Milk Hotel and in 1998 released In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, also produced by Schneider at Pet Sounds Studio.
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