Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost / Untitled (cover)

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I saw Neutral Milk Hotel live in London recently. The same week, I also got a Yamaha MT8X 8-track cassette deck. I started recording this song just to test it out, without intending to release it or anything, but I got carried away and turned it into a full-blown cover. It's very lofi, very distorted, and all the tracks were recorded hotter than hell for a bit of extra fuzz. And it has banjos in.

This is also proof-of-concept for an album of acoustic originals I want to record this summer (no, seriously). I also have a bunch of new synthy songs I need to upload at some point ;)

Huge thanks to @josefkenny on Twitter who helped me fix an issue with the tape machine that nearly jeopardised the whole track!

Gear used:
Yamaha FG720S acoustic guitar
Gretsch G9450 banjo
Epiphone Casino electric guitar
Big Muff fuzz pedal
Moog Little Phatty
Roland Juno 6
Tin whistle
Bathgate JP-99 kick and crash samples
Linn Drum snare sample
Tambourine

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