{"product_id":"9780826416902","title":"33 1\/3 Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea","description":"Author: Cooper, Kim\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780826416902\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 May 2006\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeird, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMangum 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46616115708062,"sku":"UBD-9780826416902","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780826416902.jpg?v=1773809434","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780826416902","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}