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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Paperback)
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Paperback)
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List price R297
Loot Price R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
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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 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 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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