{"product_id":"neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-kim-cooper-9780826416902","title":"Neutral Milk Hotel's in the Aeroplane Over the Sea","description":"Of 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. Weird, 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. Mangum 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082641690X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826416902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continuum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.56h x 4.76w x 0.29d","brand":"Kim Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050034884863,"sku":"9780826416902","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe9a4ec3-008d-4265-a02d-07faf296b5e9.jpg?v=1685004823","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-kim-cooper-9780826416902","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}