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Secret Square was an early, now-defunct side project of The Apples in Stereo drummer and vocalist Hilarie Sidney and Lisa Janssen, who played bass on the Neutral Milk Hotel album On Avery Island. They had two 1995 releases, both self-titled, under the Elephant Six banner.

Both the 7" and LP can be downloaded in their entirety at Optical Atlas.

Discography

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The Apples in Stereo is an American indie rock band associated with the innovative Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal and The Olivia Tremor Control.
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Hilarie Sidney is a musician most famously recognized as the longtime drummer for The Apples in Stereo. She was previously married to Apples in Stereo frontman and Elephant 6 co-founder Robert Schneider. Their divorce became publicly acknowledged in 2004.
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Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band. The band's chief lyricist and songwriter, Jeff Mangum, played with a number of other musicians on the band's two full-length albums.
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On Avery Island
(1996) In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
(1998)

On Avery Island is the debut album of Neutral Milk Hotel.

Track listing

  1. "Song Against Sex" – 3:40
  2. "You've Passed" – 2:54

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The Elephant 6 Recording Company (or simply Elephant 6) is a collective of American musicians who spawned some of the most notable independent bands of the 1990s, including The Apples in Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Of Montreal.
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Released 1995
Genre Indie Pop
Length 07:44
Label Elephant 6

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Secret Square is a 1995 7" vinyl single and the first release by Secret Square.
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Secret Square is the eponymous album by Secret Square. A lo-fi affair with songs written by Hilarie Sidney and Lisa Janssen, it consists of seven original songs and four demos. The release went largely unnoticed. Sidney herself states "not a lot of people have" heard it.
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The Apples in Stereo is an American indie rock band associated with the innovative Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal and The Olivia Tremor Control.
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Black Swan Network is a musical side project of The Olivia Tremor Control. With contributions from Neutral Milk Hotel members Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster, as well as individual contributions from Kirk Pleasant of Calvin, Don't Jump! and fablefactory's Roxanne Martin, it was
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Chocolate USA is best known as the first band of The Music Tapes' and Neutral Milk Hotel's Julian Koster. With Koster as singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter, he joined up with Liza Wakeman, Alan Edwards, Paul Wells and Keith Block under the name Miss America in 1989.
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Circulatory System is a psychedelic rock musical ensemble formed by musician/painter Will Cullen Hart, and featuring Hannah Jones, Derek Almstead, Peter Erchick, John Fernandes, and Heather McIntosh.
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Laura Carter is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Athens, GA. She is more notably in the indie rock band Elf Power, but has performed with a number of bands within the Elephant Six Collective, such as The Gerbils, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Dixie Blood Moustache.
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Dressy Bessy is an indie rock band from Denver, Colorado, associated with the Elephant Six Collective. Guitarist John Hill also plays with The Apples in Stereo. Lead vocalist/guitarist Tammy Ealom formed the band with drummer Darren Albert and guitarist turned bassist Rob Greene in
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Elf Power is an indie rock band. They are originally from Athens, Georgia, and consist of guitarist/vocalist Andrew Rieger, keyboardist Laura Carter, guitarist Jimmy Hughes, bassist Derek Almstead, violinist John Fernandes, cellist Heather McIntosh, and drummer Josh Lott.
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The Essex Green are an indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY. The band is primarily composed of songwriters Jeff Baron, Sasha Bell and Chris Ziter, and specialize in a classic sound inspired by 1960s–1970s pop and folk in the tradition of bands like The Left Banke and Fairport
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Frosted Ambassador was an enigmatic release on Kindercore Records in 1999. While press releases claimed a long career in bands named Chronicle Ape and the New Sound and a failed solo career before "moving to Belgium to study toast," evidence suggests that the project was actually
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The Gerbils were an indie rock band that formed in Athens, GA in 1998. Part of the Elephant Six Collective, the band released two albums and toured nationwide during their tenure.
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The High Water Marks is an indie rock band associated with the Elephant 6 collective. The band has two lead creative members, Hilarie Sidney and Per Ole Bratset, who co-write the band's music.
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Major Organ and the Adding Machine is thought to be the side project of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster.[1] After submitting a track to a Kindercore Records Christmas compilation in 1997, they recorded a self-titled album and released it on Orange Twin
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Marbles is the solo recording project of The Apples in Stereo singer and chief songwriter Robert Schneider. The project started out in 1993 when Schneider would record his various musical endeavors on cassette for various people he knew, but was somewhat abandoned as the Apples got
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The Minders are a band closely associated with The Elephant Six Collective. Started by Martyn Leaper in Denver, CO in 1996, the band's current members include Leaper on guitars and vocals, Rebecca Cole on keyboards, Jeff Almond on guitar, Marc Willhite on bass, and Joel Burrows on
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The Music Tapes, an indie pop/experimental outfit from the U.S.A., are effectively the project of Elephant Six member Julian Koster, also of Neutral Milk Hotel, and the earlier Chocolate U.S.A..
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Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band. The band's chief lyricist and songwriter, Jeff Mangum, played with a number of other musicians on the band's two full-length albums.
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The Olivia Tremor Control was an Athens, Georgia indie rock band in the mid- to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects.
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For the actor and comedian, see Rob Schneider.


Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum.
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Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't is the side project of The Olivia Tremor Control keyboardist Peter Erchick. Created in 1999, the name is allegedly from an illustration he read in a children's book.
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The Sunshine Fix is the solo project of The Olivia Tremor Control's Bill Doss. The name predates the Olivia Tremor Control and is currently in use.

Doss started the project while in high school, going as far as to self-release an album on cassette called
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ulysses is an indie rock band formed by Robert Schneider (lead vocalist of The Apples in Stereo) along with John Ferguson and Ben Fulton in the spring of 2003. Robert Beatty (of Hair Police) joined later that year.
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Von Hemmling is the solo project of Jim McIntyre. It is one of many bands associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Though Jim McIntyre is the band's primary performer, Hilarie Sidney and John Hill have both been members of Von Hemmling before becoming members of The Apples
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Bablicon was an Elephant 6-related post rock band consisting of members of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils.

The band was formed in 1996 when Dave McDonnell (credited as "The Diminisher"), Jeremy Barnes (as "Marta Tennae"), and Griffin Rodriguez ("Blue Hawaii") teamed up
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