title: Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
text: # Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Coke Machine Glow | (83%) |
  | No Ripcord | (8/10) |
  | Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) |
  | Prefix Magazine | |
  | 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.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Saw Pingpong And Orchestra" – 1:23
  * "Schedrevka" – 0:54
  * "Freeing Song For Reindeer" – 2:59
  * "Majesty" – 2:44
  * "Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano’s Majestic Haircut)" – 2:45
  * "Freeing Song By Reindeer" – 3:13
  * "Tornado Longing For Freedom" – 3:57
  * "Song For Oceans Falling" – 6:04
  * "Kolyada #1" – 0:53
  * "The Minister Of Longitude" – 4:46
  * "Manifest Destiny" – 3:37
  * "Kolyada #2" – 1:00
  * "Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape For Clouds)" – 4:47
  * "Julian And Grandpa" – 0:31
  * "In An Ice Palace" – 3:39
  