In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

...track, with its joyous lyrics in the face of human mortality 'When we meet on a cloud / I'll be laughing out loud', 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' is an utterly brilliant work of art, lyrically sublime. Other highlights include the melancholic instrumental track 'The Fool' and 8 minute lament 'Oh Comely', with its heartbreaking lyrics ("I know they buried her body with others / her sister and mother and 500 families / will she remember me 50 years ...
...sort of time machine) a reference to Anne Frank's death and how death is not the end, a theme that is intrisic to the album, as fragments and images of the holocaust are embedded throughout the 45 minutes. 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' is better than I could ever have hoped, it is an album that I will dive into again and again. As said by another reviewer on a different site 'If I won the lottery I would post this album through everybody's letterboxes.' ...

HenCH-son 30.11.2007 · Read full review
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...songs are musically plain, folk-like in their simplicity. The lyrics are surreal, but touching. The sound is fuzzy and unkempt, with drums and acoustic guitar fleshed out by bass, trumpet and 'musical saw'. But the most outstanding element of this album is the voice. Jeff Mangum has a style that ties these elements together and turns it into a deeply resonant experience. From the opener "King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1", it becomes obvious that this ...
...tumbling through the trees / In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet", and he means it! In any other hands this might seem pretentious, but believe me, it works, spectacularly. From there it only gets better - from the unstoppable rolling thunder of "Holland, 1945" to the eight minute solo opus "Oh, Comely", Mangum paints timeless pictures of flesh, war and death that will qiute possibly change the way you think about music. At the end ...

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...around incredibly abstract lyrics exploding in originality all taped together with the fresh and organic instruments which makes up the enchantment to this magical album. The more and more you listen to the album, the more and more you are overwhelmed by it's radiance. If you do not have this album, it is a definite must, must, must buy from me and I'm guessing everyone else who owns this album. 10/10 from me, and the best album in the 1990's, ...

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...Anne Frank 'There are lights in the clouds Anna's ghost all around/hear her voice as its rolling and ringing through me'. Mangum seems to be singing right from the heart. The album has other gems in 'Holland 1945', 'Oh Comely' and 'Communist Daughter' each of which are just as inspirational. It is no mistake that so many bands around today list Neutral Milk Hotel as one of their major influences. In terms of simple song and lyric writing, Jeff Mangum ...

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