Released during Neutral Milk Hotel's long hibernation, this 2011 box set canonised their complete studio output just as the cult had reached critical mass. Both On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea arrived pressed on vinyl, the format that best honours their grimy fidelity and brass-saw-accordion clatter.

The timing proved prophetic, preceding their 2013 reunion by two years. For obsessives who'd worn out their CDs debating Anne Frank theories and for latecomers raised on forum mythology, it offered a definitive pilgrimage object, analogue warmth intact.