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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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By Kim Cooper

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| Paperback | 9780826416902

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Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan's qContinue

Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan's quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after Aeroplane's release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it through word of mouth.

Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors.

Mangum sings his dreamlike narratives with a dreamer's intensity, his creaky, off key voice occasionally breaking as he struggles to complete each dense couplet. The music is like nothing else in the 90s indie underground: a psychedelic brass band, its members self-taught, forging polychromatic washes of mood and tribute. The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heart-rending vision.

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    Probably not everything you need to know about In the Aeroplane Over The Sea, but a very charming book indeed.
    An history of Elephant 6 collective, the background of Jeff Mangum and his music and the do-it-yourself ethic in the Neutral Milk Hotel.
    To all the fans of one of the best album e ... (continue)

    Probably not everything you need to know about In the Aeroplane Over The Sea, but a very charming book indeed.
    An history of Elephant 6 collective, the background of Jeff Mangum and his music and the do-it-yourself ethic in the Neutral Milk Hotel.
    To all the fans of one of the best album ever: don't miss it.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 104 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 082641690X
  • ISBN-13: 9780826416902
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
  • Pub date: Nov 28, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1032 mm x 774 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
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