Author: NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL

Format: Import

Release Date: 10-02-1998

Details: Product Description Named Best Album of the 1990s by Magnet Magazine, In the Airplane Over the Sea gives us Jeff Mangum's powerful solo acoustic work, full horn-section marches, history, religion, and sex-everything you hoped for and more! Amazon.ca Led by Jeff Magnum, In the Airplane 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

UPC: 036172943623

EAN: 0036172943623

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood