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-ùwith plans to tour the world in a circus tent later this year and an NPR radio serial in the works. Mary's Voice features Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) and other members of Elephant 6.