In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Vinyl]
![In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Vinyl]](/Images/B0000019P9/medium.jpg) | Merge Records, 2004, LP Record Customer Rating: 429 reviews Recommend |
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Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, you know it's going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum's intonation lends credibility even to a line like "When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers." Listening to In the Aeroplane is like stepping through Alice's looking glass; you enter a fantastic new universe that, while it doesn't always make sense logically, feels like the home you never had. — Randy Silver
Led by Jeff Magnum, In the Aeroplane 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
- The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1
- King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 - Neutral Milk Hotel, Barnes, Jeremy
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Two-Headed Boy
- The Fool - Neutral Milk Hotel, Spillane, Scott
- Holland, 1945
- Communist Daughter
- Oh Comely
- Ghost
- The Penny Arcade in California
- Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2
Title: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Vinyl]
Sales Rank: 7502 in Music
Artist: Neutral Milk Hotel
Label: Merge Records, 2004-01-20, LP Record, 1 Disc
Package Dimensions: 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches, 0.18 pounds
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