Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea ( vinyl LP )

Release date:13-08-2005 (originally released in 1998)

 

2005 EU reissue ( vinyl LP )In The Aeroplane Over The Seamay contain even more solo acoustic compositions than its predecessor, but in a nice turn of irony, it's also the most collaborative Neutral Milk Hotel offering. The album possesses an intimacy, and a sense of purpose, that could only come from shared experience. It's even more conceptual than its multi-layered predecessor, taking on history, faith and spirituality as some of its central themes. But the group's aim was not as much to reinterpret these themes as to rediscover them. The result is very personal and not always a pretty, stream-of-consciousness account of what was gained from the experience.

 

Named Best Album of the 1990s by Magnet Magazine, Aeroplane gives us Jeff Mangum's powerful solo acoustic work, full horn-section marches, history, religion and sex. Everything you hoped for and more!

 

Tracks:

A1 The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One

A2 The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three

A3 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

A4 Two-Headed Boy

A5 The Fool

A6 Holland, 1945

A7 Communist Daughter

 

B1 Oh Comely

B2 Ghost

B3 Untitled

B4 Two-Headed Boy, Pt. Two