Julian Koster

As a member of Neutral Milk Hotel, the Music Tapes, and Major Organ and the Adding Machine, multi-instrumentalist Julian Koster always seems to pop up wherever enigmatic, homegrown indie-psych is played. His penchant for the whimsically left-of-center reached a crescendo on his solo debut on Merge Records, THE SINGING SAW AT CHRISTMASTIME, a collection of holiday fare eerily performed on singing saw.