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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Neutral Milk Hotel |
| Record Label: |
Merge Records |
| Contributing Artist: |
Robert Schneider |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
February 10, 1998 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One 2. King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two and Three 3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 4. Two-Headed Boy 5. Fool 6. Holland, 1945 7. Communist Daughter 8. Oh Comely 9. Ghost 10. (Untitled) 11. Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two |
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Neutral Milk Hotel: Jeff Mangum ( vocals, guitar, organ, bass, drums, tapes, shortwave radio); Julian Koster (banjo, accordian, saw); Scott Spillane (trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, euphonium); Jeremy Barnes (organ, drums). Additional personnel: Michelle Anderson (Uilleann pipes); Marisa Bissinger (saxophone, flugelhorn); Rick Benejamin (trombone); Laura Carter (zanzithophone); Robert Schneider (piano, organ, bass, background vocals). Neutral Milk Hotel leader Jeff Mangum is a popster who hears interstellar sounds as natural ingredients of his "pop." He was weaned with the inevitable four-track in his bedroom, schooled on a record collection stacked with John Cage and Captain Beefheart as well as the Beatles and the Kinks. There is an instant emotional intensity to Neutral Milk's music, and the seeds that were sewn on '96's lo-fi masterpiece ON AVERY ISLAND, bear an evolving fruit on IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA. Mangum's psych-folk songwriter musings dominate the album's landscape. Confusion streams out... |
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