| Neutral Milk Hotel's in the Aeroplane Over the Sea Contributor(s): Cooper, Kim (Author) |
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ISBN: 082641690X ISBN-13: 9780826416902 Publisher: Continuum
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2005 Annotation: New to Continuum's acclaimed 33 1/3 series, this entry examines this cult-favorite record from the 90s--a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank. Major publicity and promotion planned. Click for more in this series: 33 1/3 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 782.421 |
| LCCN: 2005026672 |
| Series: 33 1/3 |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 4.76" W x 6.56" L (0.25 lbs) 119 pages |
| Features: Illustrated, Price on Product |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
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