{"id":209,"date":"2007-03-27T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2007\/03\/27\/neutral-milk-hotel\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:50:43","slug":"neutral-milk-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2007\/03\/27\/neutral-milk-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"~Neutral Milk Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Neutral_Milk_Hotel.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Neutral Milk Hotel\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/neeutral_milk_hotel___2.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Neutral Milk Hotel #2\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Neutral_Milk_Hotel___3.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"342\" alt=\"Neutral Milk Hotel #3\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Neutral_Milk_Hotel___4.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Neutral Milk Hotel #4\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Neutral_Milk_Hotel_CD____5.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"349\" alt=\"Neutral Milk Hotel #5\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just bought my 4th copy (in ten years) of Neutral Milk Hotel&#8217;s 2nd CD<br \/>\n<em>In The Aeroplane Over The Sea<\/em> and it sounds as fresh and new as when<br \/>\nI first bought it ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In my history of Indie music it ranks as one of the top 10 CDs of the last 15 years,<br \/>\nup there with Cat Power&#8217;s and the Palace Brother&#8217;s first CDs.<\/p>\n<p>Since Jeremy Barnes, who plays drums and organ on this compelling CD,<br \/>\nresurfaced on that great Beirut debut CD last year, and Kevin Barnes, aka<br \/>\nOf Montreal, has just released his 7th CD (a review on that CD will be coming soon),<br \/>\nand Apples in Stereo, (Elephant 6 founder and Apples in Stereo guitarist Robert Schneider plays several instruments, and produced this 2nd Neutral Milk Hotel CD), released their first CD in five years, I felt I should express my thanks to the whole Elephant 6 community for (as a friend of mine<br \/>\nnamed Cricket said a few years ago)  &#8230;&#8221;saving the music&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The sound and lyrics on <em>In The Aeroplane Over the Sea<\/em> at first sound strange and familiar<br \/>\n at the same time, it takes a few listens to get the awesome poetics and place the musicial references.<br \/>\nThe whole CD is great and should be listened to, all the way through.<\/p>\n<p>Lead singer Jeff Mangum&#8217;s lyrics revolve around Anne Frank&#8217;s diaries,<br \/>\nwhile the music can be described as American hillbilly folk punk. The spirit<br \/>\nthat dominated Neutral Milk Hotel and other Elephant 6 groups, was one<br \/>\nof exuberant co-operation, musicians would play in each other&#8217;s bands,<br \/>\nand live shows like Olivia Tremor Control&#8217;s were famous for their joyous<br \/>\njam sessions.<\/p>\n<p>PRODUCED BY ROBERT SCHNEIDER<\/p>\n<p>Recorded in the Elephant 6 Recording Company July &#8211; Sept 1997<\/p>\n<p>Art Direction: Chris Bilheimer &#038; Jeff Mangum &#8211;  &#8220;Flying Victoria&#8221; by Brian Dewan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephant6.com\">www.elephant6.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought my 4th copy (in ten years) of Neutral Milk Hotel&#8217;s 2nd CD In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and it sounds as fresh and new as when I first bought it ten years ago. In my history of Indie music it ranks as one of the top 10 CDs of the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}