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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

1998 · Rock, Folk, World, & Country

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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is an Alt/Indie album by Neutral Milk Hotel, originally released in 1998. On Gatefold: 35 pressings tracked, owned by 157 collectors.

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Jeff Mangum's second album as Neutral Milk Hotel is a masterpiece. Inspired by a reading of the Anne Frank story, and with the help from the Elephant Six recording collective (Apples in Stereo and Olivia Tremor Control), <i>In the Aeroplane Over the Sea</i> is a personal meditation on the rich joys of life and the tragedy of death. Triumphantly martial brass arrangements, warbly musical saw, and sweet piano augment the rough buzz of Mangum's basic acoustic guitar strum, but it's his glorious, wailing voice that soars over all of it as the album progresses seamlessly from big rock songs ("Holland, 1945," "Ghost") and achingly earnest mid-tempo numbers ("King of Carrot Flowers Part 1") to a brass-led dirge ("The Fool") reminiscent of the jazz funeral that march through the streets of Mangum's native Louisiana. To hear this album once is to love it forever.

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Tracklist

  1. 1The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. One2:00
  2. 2The King Of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three3:06
  3. 3In The Aeroplane Over The Sea3:22
  4. 4Two-Headed Boy4:26
  5. 5The Fool1:53
  6. 6Holland, 19453:12
  7. 7Communist Daughter1:57
  8. 8Oh Comely8:18
  9. 9Ghost4:08
  10. 10Untitled2:15
  11. 11Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two5:13

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Indie Rock
  • raw
  • lo-fi
  • wistful

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

First CD version:
• The printed design on the disk face continues onto the inner ring.
• No barcode on the release.
A barcode sticker, if present, may be on the jewel-case back, lower right.
Recorded in the Elephant 6 Recording Company July-Sept. 1997.
Cat number is MRG136CD on spine and CD, mrg136 on barcode sticker

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Jeff MangumGUITAR, VOCALS, ORGAN, DRUMS , BASS , TAPE, EFFECTS GUITAR, VOCALS, ORGAN, TOM TOM , BASS , TAPE, EFFECTS GUITAR, VOCALS, ORGAN, TOM TOM , BASS , TAPE, EFFECTS , ART DIRECTION
  • Jeremy BarnesDRUMS, ORGAN
  • Julian KosterELECTRIC ORGAN , SAW , BANJO , ACCORDION , NOISES ORGAN , SAW , BANJO , ACCORDION, NOISES
  • Laura CarterHORN SAXOPHONE
  • Marisa BissingerSAXOPHONE, FLUGELHORN
  • Merisa BissingerSAXOPHONE, FLUGELHORN
  • Rick BenjaminTROMBONE
  • Rick Benjamin-TebelauTROMBONE
  • Robert SchneiderARRANGED BY ORGAN , ORGAN , BASS , HARMONY VOCALS , PIANO ORGAN , BASS , BACKING VOCALS , PIANO
  • Scott SpillaneARRANGED BY TRUMPET, FLUGELHORN, TROMBONE, EUPHONIUM TRUMPET, FLUGELHORN, TROMBONE, EUPHONIUM, ARRANGED BY

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