Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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Artist: Neutral Milk HotelEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-02-10
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- The King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1
- The King Of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3
- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
- Two - Headed Boy
- The Fool
- Holland, 1945
- Communist Daughter
- Oh Comely
- Ghost
- Untitled
- Two - Headed Boy Part 2
Free Music Notes for In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Free Music Review: 10 years and still incredible
Hit: 5 Stars
I knew there would be an ocean of reviews for this, and I probably cannot add anything that has not already been said. But I love this album so much, and find so it moving, that on the 10th anniversary of my wife buying and it and playing it for the two of us for the first time, I simply have to express my feelings about it. (In all of her infinite wisdom, she bought this album with no hype, virtually no advance press, a near-total whim. I still remember our reactions listening to it for the first time--try to imagine hearing this with n o w a r n i n g w h a t s o e v e r. We were stunned and stoked when it made amazon's best of '98; we didn't even know anyone outside of Georgia even knew of it.)
By now everyone knows this is a "love it or hate it" kind of album. But to those of us who know, this is one of the most moving and personal pieces of art you will find--not just in the pop music landscape, but really anywhere. It's just like that: you cry. Not because it is sad, which it is; not because it is intimate approaching naked, which it is; not because it is stunningly inventive, which it is; not because it is beautiful, which it is; not because it is completely out of left field, which it is; but because it is all of these things at once, and it alternates between rambling torrents of visceral energy seemingly from line to line. And about the singing--ya know, he HAS to sing it like that. That need to "get it all down" that Mangum's out of control singing conveys is what most makes the album so singularly unique and heartfelt--so absolutely full of immediacy and abandon.
We all lament Mr. Mangum's disappearance from the scene because, selfishly, we want more. We want to see this performed in person, to meld with its soul, and with its making in front of us. But we all must know that this is what happens when someone makes something so perfect: there really is nowhere else to go and nothing else to do. It has happened, and lightning was not meant to strike twice.
Thank you so much, Jeff, for sharing it with us.
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Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, you know it's going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum's intonation lends credibility even to a line like "When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers." Listening to In the Aeroplane is like stepping through Alice's looking glass; you enter a fantastic new universe that, while it doesn't always make sense logically, feels like the home you never had. --Randy SilverLed by Jeff Magnum, In the Aeroplane over the Sea finds the Neutral Milk Hotel assemblage loosely performing a series of narratives backed by folksy acoustic guitar. But from that springboard, a quiver of instruments (horns, organs, accordions, saws, banjo, zanzithophone, etc.) are layered into a sometimes rootsy, sometimes lo-fi, and often psychedelic mix. Contrary to most pop experimentalists, NMH songs stretch way past the two-minute mark: "Two Headed Boy" transforms from a Guided by Voices-ish romp into a New Orleans big band funeral march, "The Fool" is as catchy as anything Poi Dog Pondering ever produced, and "Holland" builds up to a crescendo of saw, Uillean pipes, a chorus of voices, and fuzzed-out guitar. Simply irresistible. --Jason Verlinde
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