Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the SeaA&C Black, 16 nov 2005 - 104 páginas 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. |
Índice
Ruston where they are young and begin to find their way | 5 |
Athens which almost but doesnt quite make it | 16 |
Of Denver which is a nice place to visit | 20 |
On Avery Island sessions | 23 |
In Queens there was a queen named Marie and in her castle all things were possible | 28 |
Back to Athens which this time is just right | 38 |
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea sessions | 53 |
The songs | 68 |
Listening parties | 77 |
Cover art | 79 |
The Neutral Milk Hotel Aeroplane takes off | 84 |
Athens and after | 94 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accordion acoustic guitar Aeroplane album Anne Frank’s Anne’s Athens Avery Island band members band’s Bill Doss Brian Bryan Poole capture Carrot Flowers Pts cassettes Chris Bilheimer collaboration courtesy Laura Carter creative Denver distortion drum early Elephant Elf Power feel felt four-track Frank freak friends fuzz Gerbils gigs going Goldaline gonna Grady Avenue Grandma’s guys happening Hart hear horn sections Hotel music Jeff and Robert Jeff Mangum Jeff’s voice Jeremy Barnes Julian Koster kids kinda King of Carrot Lance Bangs Laura Carter listen live magic microphone Music Tapes musicians Neutral Milk Hotel night Oh Comely Olivia Tremor Control onstage Pet Sounds played players psychedelic radio recalls record Robbie Cucchiaro Robert Schneider Ross Beach Ruston Scott Spillane seemed sessions singing solo songs Street studio Supreme Dicks talk there’s things tour town track trying Two-Headed Boy wanted weird who’s