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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea  -  CD

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Neutral Milk Hotel

| SKU:  3339051
Release Date:  2/10/1998
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Songs

 
1. The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1(2:00)
2. The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2-3(3:06)
3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea(3:22)
4. Two-Headed Boy(4:26)
5. The Fool(1:53)
6. Holland, 1945(3:12)
7. Communist Daughter(1:57)
8. Oh Comely(8:18)
9. Ghost(4:08)
10. The Penny Arcade in California(2:16)
11. Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2(5:13)

Details

Format
CD(1)
Release Date
2/10/1998
Original Release Date
6/1/1998
Length
39 minutes , 51 seconds
Genre
Lo Fi
Label
Merge
Studio/Live
Studio
Mono/Stereo
Stereo
UPC
036172943623

Release Notes

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: Release Notes: Muze 
Neutral Milk Hotel: Jeff Mangum ( vocals, guitar, organ, bass, drums, tapes, shortwave radio); Julian Koster (banjo, accordian, saw); Scott Spillane (trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, euphonium); Jeremy Barnes (organ, drums).Additional personnel: Michelle Anderson (Uilleann pipes); Marisa Bissinger (saxophone, flugelhorn); Rick Benejamin (trombone); Laura Carter (zanzithophone); Robert Schneider (piano, organ, bass, background vocals).Neutral Milk Hotel leader Jeff Mangum is a popster who hears interstellar sounds as natural ingredients of his "pop." He was weaned with the inevitable four-track in his bedroom, schooled on a record collection stacked with John Cage and Captain Beefheart as well as the Beatles and the Kinks. There is an instant emotional intensity to Neutral Milk's music, and the seeds that were sewn on '96's lo-fi masterpiece ON AVERY ISLAND, bear an evolving fruit on IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA.Mangum's psych-folk songwriter musings dominate the album's landscape. Confusion streams out in hallucinatory phrases, trying to outrace a manic acoustic guitar, which in turn propels a band whose general sound is a four-track, punked-up version of Tom Waits' RAIN DOGS outfit. Brass-heavy instrumentals akin to ambient, bayou funeral dirges skitter by. At times, sunny pop emerges from the busy squall , as on the title track. Occasionally, the squall itself latches onto a melody, exploding with Flaming Lips-like ferocity. All of it suggests that while Neutral Milk's grasp on inherent truths (musical and otherwise) is wholly unstable, its quest for them is a wonder to behold.

Credits

Performer Neutral Milk Hotel
Producer(s) Robert Schneider

Customer Reviews

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - CD (1 out of 1)
Fuzz-Folk - the genre that never was
5
Posted by: from Joplin, Missouri on 10/29/2008a friend of mine, Nichole, just showed me this band not a month ago. being that she is basically my "indie music consultant," i expect the newest, most unknown band names to escape her mouth - bands she probably hasn't heard because a) they don't exist, or b) there is no way someone can hear of, listen to, and be aquainted with more than a couple bands a night (bear in mind that she and i see each other daily and she is always waxing romantic about some new or schtick fad-band). finally she said a band name that i heard and was pestered by: Neutral Milk Hotel. could you say that again? did i hear that right? how pretentious can one band be with a name that seems to have been created with the sole purpose of being too indie for it's own good? so, my initial sentiments were those of disgust. but the name stuck. Neutral Milk Hotel. and the words repeated in my head until i finally downloaded "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". i can say that i was more than shocked in the fact that it was actually good, i was overwhelmed. frankly, she has recommended more than a few sub par bands in the time i've known her. but not this one. there is so much eloquence not only in the general layout of the album itself (being that it is structured similarly to that of one flowing piece with separate movements and overtures and reprises), but also in his voice. the easiest analogy: the ugly duckling - while nearly impossible to even glance at initially, once it grows and develops (in this case, in your head and after a few listens) it is something that is hard to keep from admiring. there is this constant tinge of sincerity the likes i haven't heard before. everyone has HEARD someone sad, but not with these tones, not in this fashion. it is sharp and as though as he is almost barking, but it is with this ambition to create beauty. take that set of vocal chords, pair them with the folk band that plays on the corner or in the bar every now and again, and throw in the precarious distortion of the up and coming punk band at the end of your street. and you have their sound. get on this now.

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Editorial Reviews

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: MUZE Review
Muze

Spin (9/99, p.164) - Ranked #88 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."Spin (3/98, pp.134-135) - 7 (out of 10) - "...Mangum's quasi-mystical, Donovan impulses distance him from the Apples [In Stereo's] Starburst melodies and Olivia [Tremor Control's] psychedelic lollipops. He wants to be the Sundown Superman, the cross-legged troubador of the low-fi set..."Entertainment Weekly (3/6/98, p.80) - "...blends buzzing indie-rock guitars, beautifully arranged horns, and oddball instrumentation....But, hey, anyone can make off-the-wall sounds; it's Milk-man Jeff Mangum's bouncy pop melodies...that make AEROPLANE take off..." - Rating: B+Uncut (p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[W]ith unhinged evangelical urgency and ambitiously ramshackle arrangements..."CMJ (1/11/99, p.3) - "...With its intensely personal lyrics and diverse, carnival-esque instrumentation, the celebratory and mournful AEROPLANE is unlike any other recording released in 1998..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Its opaque, surrealistic narratives about wartime Europe and two-headed children proceed in a breathless, mellifluous torrent across a lo-fi landscape of thrumming acoustics, soaring brass and, on the title track, massed bowed saws."NME (Magazine) (5/23/98, 44) - 6 (out of 10) - "...Magnum's voice [is]....A sort of stylistic mumble that runs up and down the scale and seems all over the place...perfectly suited to Neutral Milk Hotel's see-sawing electrified acoustic folk..."