You know that kind of empty feeling you get sometimes, when you're alone? As if there's something missing from your life, but you just don't know what?
Well, there is something missing.
And this is it.
And you need it to be complete, I can tell.
This album is mind-blowingly original. It's amazing. Neutral Milk Hotel is a big band with an even bigger sound. Explosive drums that rattle windows and sensibilities. Theremin. Horns! Great bass lines, rockin' guitar, mind-warping (great) lyrics, assorted weirdness, and some of the best, most original vocals the music world has ever known.
This album is an experience. It may take you a while to get used to the vocals which are high and screechy and unlike anything you've ever heard, but which slam you with the full impact of exactly what the singer's trying to say. Sometimes the music is nothing but a voice and an acoustic guitar, yet the vocals are so full and so...much...that you might not even notice until several listens later.

They told you beer was an acquired taste, and you choked it down until you liked it. Well, this may be an acquired taste as well, but it's even better than beer.