{"product_id":"neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-paperback","title":"Neutral Milk Hotel's in the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKim Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Cooper is the editrix of Scram, an occasional journal of unpopular culture dedicated to celebrating unjustly neglected artists in the worlds of music, literature, film\/TV, comics and bohemia. With fellow 33 1\/3 scribe David Smay, she is co-editor of the anthologies Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. A third generation Angeleno, Kim offers offbeat bus tours of the city's crimes, literature and architectural gems through Esotouric, and blogs at the crime-a-day 1947project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 119\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 6.56 x 4.76 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757946405152,"sku":"9780826416902","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c6aa07e80d2af453a421c7f15f0f16cd.webp?v=1780115193","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}