{"product_id":"9780826416902","title":"Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNeutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Kim Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf 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. \u003ci\u003eMagnet\u003c\/i\u003e magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and \u003ci\u003eCreative Loafing\u003c\/i\u003e recently devoted a cover story to one fan's quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after \u003ci\u003eAeroplane\u003c\/i\u003e's release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it through word of mouth. Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, \u003ci\u003eIn The Aeroplane Over the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780826416902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40596100939982,"sku":"9780826416902","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_e457da21-f44b-40f5-b2de-4b10c99bc5dc.jpg?v=1637849254","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780826416902","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}