"Mary's Voice", THE MUSIC TAPES' third full-length album, is the warmest and most accessible invitation yet into Julian Koster's world-the culmination of a vision he has been realizing for over a decade. That vision began taking shape in the '90s, during which time Koster also became a key member of NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL and a contributor to THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL and other legendary members of the enormously influential Elephant 6 Collective. "Mary's Voice", the follow-up to 2008's acclaimed "Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes", is part one of a planned two-part album and inaugurates a newly active phase in THE MUSIC TAPES' evolution-with plans to tour the world in a circus tent later this year and a National Public Radio serial in the works. ... read more