Latest Release
- FEB 24, 2023
- 8 Songs
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- On Avery Island · 1996
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea · 1998
- Oh, Merge · 1999
Essential Albums
- Jeff Mangum's second album as Neutral Milk Hotel is a masterpiece. Inspired by a reading of the Anne Frank story, and with the help from the Elephant Six recording collective (Apples in Stereo and Olivia Tremor Control), In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a personal meditation on the rich joys of life and the tragedy of death. Triumphantly martial brass arrangements, warbly musical saw, and sweet piano augment the rough buzz of Mangum's basic acoustic guitar strum, but it's his glorious, wailing voice that soars over all of it as the album progresses seamlessly from big rock songs ("Holland, 1945," "Ghost") and achingly earnest mid-tempo numbers ("King of Carrot Flowers Part 1") to a brass-led dirge ("The Fool") reminiscent of the jazz funeral that march through the streets of Mangum's native Louisiana. To hear this album once is to love it forever.
Albums
- 2023
- 1996
- 1995
Artist Playlists
- Tape-spliced psychedelia gives way to emotionally fraught folk.
- The acolytes of the enigmatic, experimentalist indie rocker.
- Taking inventory of the ingredients that go into indie rock's most eclectic recipe.
Singles & EPs
More To Hear
- On Death Cab For Cutie, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Bloc Party.
About Neutral Milk Hotel
Led by the enigmatic Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel gained a passionate cult following for their scruffy, exuberant indie rock, exemplified by the 1998 touchstone In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
- ORIGIN
- Ruston, LA, United States
- FORMED
- 1989
- GENRE
- Rock