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Track Listings
| 1. The King Of Carrot Flowers Part One |
| 2. The King Of Carrot Flowers |
| 3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea |
| 4. Two-Headed Boy |
| 5. The Fool |
| 6. Holland, 1945 |
| 7. Communist Daughter |
| 8. Oh Comely |
| 9. Ghost |
| 10. (Untitled) |
| 11. Two-Headed Boy Part Two |
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Led 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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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I stumbled across this recently. I have to admit that like most people this one had completely passed me by. This is an exceptional album. Utterly exceptional. I can honestly say that this must be one of the best albums I've ever heard. Just such a shame that it has taken so long to get to hear it. How Jeff Mangum didn't make it big I don't know (maybe the bands name!?).
The album is ostensibly a collection of songs inspired by events in World War II and particularly about treatment of Jews and Anne Frank in particular. If this sounds a bit heavy don't worry - musically this work is superbly bright and inventive whilst lyrically it is both fantastically provocative and profound.
Whilst based around the acoustic guitar playing of Mangum, the music benefits from multilayered instumentation including some excellent brass. The pace varies from the slow but heartfelt "Communist Daughter" and "Oh Comely" to the fast rock of "King of Carrot Flowers, Pts 2 and 3" via jazzy interludes of "Holland, 1945". Standout tracks are "Two Headed Boy", "King of Carrot Flowers" and "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea". However all of the tracks here are excellent. Wherever you look on this album there is inventiveness and originality. You can see how this may have influenced later artists as varied as Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens.
A wonderful discovery. A definite buy for anyone who likes good music.
10/10. This is by a long way my favourite album. In the few years since I wrote this I really think it's discovery has in many ways affected me and the way I've lived my life. It awakened a passion for music I didn't really know was there. Truly a one off.
The album is ostensibly a collection of songs inspired by events in World War II and particularly about treatment of Jews and Anne Frank in particular. If this sounds a bit heavy don't worry - musically this work is superbly bright and inventive whilst lyrically it is both fantastically provocative and profound.
Whilst based around the acoustic guitar playing of Mangum, the music benefits from multilayered instumentation including some excellent brass. The pace varies from the slow but heartfelt "Communist Daughter" and "Oh Comely" to the fast rock of "King of Carrot Flowers, Pts 2 and 3" via jazzy interludes of "Holland, 1945". Standout tracks are "Two Headed Boy", "King of Carrot Flowers" and "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea". However all of the tracks here are excellent. Wherever you look on this album there is inventiveness and originality. You can see how this may have influenced later artists as varied as Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens.
A wonderful discovery. A definite buy for anyone who likes good music.
10/10. This is by a long way my favourite album. In the few years since I wrote this I really think it's discovery has in many ways affected me and the way I've lived my life. It awakened a passion for music I didn't really know was there. Truly a one off.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I am an enthusiastic fan of all sorts of music, and this must be one of my favourite cds of all time. first heard it on internet radio, bought the album and just couldnt stop listening to it. Amazingly affecting songs, great rock music. Why won't he make another record, dammit ?
Getting into it, especially due its unwarranted obscurity, it is like listening late at night to the radio and accidentally coming across a station from somewhere fabulous you have never been to and don't know how to get to. Can anyone else hear this music ? A bit florid, but the record is so moving.
If your ears are open you will love this record.
47 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I don't know what has led you to this page, Neutral Milk Hotel are far from a well-known act and so I'm guessing it must either be a sheer stroke of good luck, or you've been given a tip off about it. Either way, your life is about to get better.
It's hard to pigeon-hole where the sound comes from - the other reviewers may do a better job than I will about describing precisely what it's like. The best way I can describe it, I think, is to say that it's discordantly beautiful. There's a near-riot of instruments battling each other for your attention, filling your ears with conflicting sounds but somehow coming out the other end in perfect harmony as they do so. It's also worth noting that it's far from your typically over-produced fare - nobody has spent three days tweaking the drum rhythms to get them precisely right so that they appeal to the widest cross-section of the target audience. Nobody has fiddled with sliders to get his voice spot onto each note. This is raw music, mainlining the melodies, the rhythms, and most of all the emotion straight from source. Joyous, sorrowful, imaginative, perceptive, evocative... it reaches inside you and yanks your soul awake and reminds you that you're alive. Like watching a flower grow in that fast-motion style that can make months pass in seconds - organic, natural, beautiful, and most of all full of the throb and pulse of Life with a capital L.
I just know that I think this is the best album I own, and probably will ever own, and that everybody I know who is fortunate enough to have found In The Aeroplane Over The Sea feels the same way. I don't know what Jeff Mangun did before this, and I don't know what he did after this. Very probably he never hit these heights, but right here on this little silver disc he produces a work of unique unrepeatable genius.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Amazing
This album is just amazing and very much forgotten about in the UK. But it will always be my favourite album of all time.
Published 21 days ago by Terry
Stopped me in my tracks
Not often that music stops me dead these days, but on hearing this that's exactly what happened!
It's not an easy album per-se, but is catchy and tuneful. Read more
It's not an easy album per-se, but is catchy and tuneful. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andy C
Unique and beautiful
This record is not for everybody, as Jeff Mangum's rough vocals may not sit well for those better accustomed with "proper" singing. But boy, is it passionate. Read more
Published 2 months ago by I<3Rock
near perfection.
I originally brought this album years ago, unfortunatly i let an old friend borrow it and never got it back. For years i have felt like a little piece of me has been missing. Read more
Published 3 months ago by baconpeas
Slowly being discovered
In The Aeroplane is an album which didn't get much notice when it was first released. But gradually its word of mouth growth has given it a status that is that of a classic album. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Syriat
Aeroplane Over the Sea 140
Aeroplane Over the Sea; #Neutral Milk Hotel - Brutally raw music with husky lyrics that make the spine tingle & the head light. Exceptional.
Published 7 months ago by @Review140_
A word to those left disappointed by this album
When I first heard this album, I was mostly unimpressed. "King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 1 + 2" and the eponymous "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" were the songs I immediately... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Kieran Jones
BAGGY JUMPERS
O.K somehow trawling the net or simply being led here you have come across Neutral Milk Hotel,faced with inordinate lavish reviews,the cult of Jeff Magnum,praise from high rolling... Read more
Published 10 months ago by mister joe
I don't get it . .
I hate it when this happens. You hear widespread acclaim for an album by an artist your not familiar with, and you await the musical epithany to wash over you (well I do anyway! Read more
Published 12 months ago by leolos
In the Aeroplane...
Some wonderfully structured lyrical ramblings aside a basic acoustic backing and some dreamscaped sounds. It's often I hear a record and pick out items.... Read more
Published 14 months ago by cerprice
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