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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

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Jeff Mangum's second album as Neutral Milk Hotel is a masterpiece, Inspired by a reading of the Ann Frank story, and with the help from the Elephant Six recording collective (Apples in Stereo and Olivia Tremor Control), In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a personal meditation on the rich joys of life and the tragedy of death. Triumphantly martial brass arrangements, warbly musical saw, and sweet piano augment the rough buzz of Mangum's basic acoustic guitar strum, but it's his glorious, wailing voice that soars over all of it as the album progresses seamlessly from bombastic rock songs ("Holland, 1945," "Ghost") and achingly earnest mid-tempo numbers ("King of Carrot Flowers Part 1") to a brass-led dirge ("The Fool") reminiscent of the jazz funeral that march through the streets of Mangum's native Louisiana. To hear this album once is to love it forever.

Customer Reviews

Believe the hype

I owned this album for 6 months without liking it. It sat in the glove compartment of my truck, collecting dust and reading road maps presumably. Maybe it was Jeff Mangum's voice, which upon first listen sounded like a cross between nails on a chalkboard and my roomate's garbled singing in the shower. Maybe it was the weather, early summer in the mountains of North Carolina; far too nice to be devoting time to music that seemed difficult. But as chance would have it, the weather changed and grew cold, gray. I had a long drive from town up to my house, and under that winter sky one day I put it in. Instant gratification. As I wound through curvy steep roads, I also wound through a myriad of emotions. This album, filled with wonderous intense music, had been playing coy in my glove compartment all along, and was now opening up to me. I can't describe the album any better than it already has been by others. It is what it is; passionate and purposeful, vague memories and moments of clarity, stories and confessions. It never loses focus, it never loses touch. And 5 years later, it still gets better each listen.

My Favorite Album of All Time

Let me just say this... this is the only album I've heard that has actually made me cry, weeping like a child because it is so radiantly gorgeous, awe-inspiring. His music is so starkly beautiful, so rich and gripping and involving.. it is one of the few albums I have which I would rather unplug the phone than have interrupted. This album is such a vulnerable, incredibly powerful and melodically brilliant it deserves the highest respect of anyone who truly loves music. I cannot imagine topping it or improving it in any way. Utterly fascinating.

Astonishing album, utterly ruined by iTMS/iTunes/iPod

It pains me to have to give this album only 3 stars, but the stars off are not because of the album (which is astonishingly good), rather because of how the album is utterly ruined by the uneditable, encrypted AAC format of iTMS and iTunes' and the iPod's inability to do true gapless playback. Many of the songs on this album flow from one to the next, seamlessly on a CD, but with a heart stopping hiccup when played as individual tracks in iTunes or on the iPod. This problem seems far worse on this album than any other I've listened to. Setting iTunes to have a 0 second "cross-fade" doesn't help - the hiccup is still there, though perhaps ever so slightly tempered, and of course there is no such option on the iPod anyway. Unlike a CD, if you buy this from iTMS you don't have the option of "joining" the individual tracks together into one seamless track which would effectively resolve this problem. So, buy this on CD and use iTunes' "Join CD Tracks" menu item in the "Adanced" menu to produce a single, seamless track. Unfortunately for me, I purchased this on iTMS and am stuck with the prospect of having to buy it a second time on CD. Buying this on iTMS is a waste of money!

Biography

Formed: 1989 in Athens, GA

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s

The self-described "fuzz-folk" project Neutral Milk Hotel was one of the primary outgrowths of the Elephant 6 Recording Company collective, a coterie of like-minded, lo-fi indie groups — including the Apples (in stereo), the Olivia Tremor Control and Secret Square — who shared musicians, ideas, and sensibilities. While ranging in sound and concept from solo acoustic work to full band performances, Neutral Milk Hotel essentially remained the work of Jeff Mangum, a singer/songwriter from...
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