Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

CML call number: CD ROCK Neutral
Contents: The king of carrot flowers, pt. 1 — The king of carrot flowers, pts. 2 & 3 — In the aeroplane over the sea — Two-headed boy — The fool — Holland, 1945 — Communist daughter — Oh comely — Ghost — Two-headed boy pt. 2.
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog Sound Check: "Neutral Milk Hotel is not reuniting. Neither are plenty of other bands, of course, but there have been several rumors to the contrary about Neutral Milk Hotel over the past year, Billboard reports, prompting denials from the indie 'fuzz-folk' band's eccentric frontman, Jeff Mangum. Neutral Milk Hotel is one of those groups that is highly influential in music circles (stylistic descendants include the Decemberists and the Arcade Fire) while remaining largely unknown by the broader public. I'd be surprised if either of its full-length records has sold anywhere close to 100,000 copies, but Neutral Milk's second album, 1998's 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea,' is a heartbreaking masterpiece built on lo-fi instrumentation and the fragile emotion of Mangum's quavering voice" (3/31/07).