The long-in-the-works The Elephant 6 Recording Co. documentary hits theaters on August 25, telling the story behind the psychedelic collective that featured renowned bands like Apples in Stereo, Of Montreal, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, and Neutral Milk Hotel.
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The Elephant 6 crew talk about hearing Neutral Milk Hotel’s landmark In the Aeroplane Over the Sea for the first time in this exclusive clip from the upcoming documentary about the storied indie rock label.
The long-in-the-works The Elephant 6 Recording Co. documentary hits theaters on August 25, telling the story behind the psychedelic collective that featured renowned bands like Apples in Stereo, Of Montreal, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, and Neutral Milk Hotel.
The collective, stationed in their homebase of Athens, Georgia, would often gather at vegetarian potlucks and share the new music they’d been working on.
Someone suggested that maybe Olivia Tremor Control’s Bill Doss adds some electronics to the album, but that idea was quickly shot down: “This is the record,” Wrathgabar said.
Within years of its 1998 release, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea would be recognized as a cult classic and a high water mark of both indie rock and the Elephant 6’s output.
Nearly a decade after the film was in the crowdfunding stage, and following a seldom-seen secretive VHS release, the documentary will finally hit select theaters on August 25.
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Saw a version of NMH at the Moore theater in Seattle… I think several people from Elf Power were helping out. Such a classic album!!! Never thought I’d get a chance to see them.
Hopefully music is still happening like this somewhere in American
That’s pretty cool. What did you think?
It was good…might have been 2012 or 2015…Jeff had a lot of musicians helping him out on stage to reproduce the sound. Got the feeling he really wanted to give the fans a good show. I think i remember the guy from elf power getting out the saw even… Just read on his wiki that “Slate described Mangum as the “Salinger of Indie Rock.”” So kind of cool that he gets out there and does it at all, I was grateful.