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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Books Magazines Of all the recordings to emerge from the AthensviaDenver 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 bandleader 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 twoheaded 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 selftaught 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 heartrending vision
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