Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)
by Kim Cooper

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)
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Author: Kim Cooper
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-28
ISBN: 082641690X
Number of pages: 104
Publisher: Continuum
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Book Reviews of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)

Book Review: One of the best in the 33 1/3 series
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is awesome because...

a) It presents a meticulous history of the band's history
b) The recording process of the album is discussed in full, and broken down song by song
c) Nearly all of the people involved with the album and the band contribute commentary, so, you get a VERY multifaceted portrait of very REAL people
d) After reading it, you will want to listen to the album several times over to pick out the subtle innuendo laced throughout...which the book talks about in depth

Summary of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)

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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