In 1998 the Merge publishes a great little masterpiece; watercolor of songwriting and folk deviated, crooked, fragile and emotionally clear in his own imbalance.
In their personal flight, the Americans Neutral Milk Hotel, driven by Jeff Mangum (the other components over time: Jeremy Barnes - battery, Scott Spillane - harmonic, Julian Koster - banjo, guitar and bow saw), thus giving the prints "In The Airplane Over the Sea".
From a musical point of view but above all textual, although in a revised key, the disc is largely inspired by the famous Diary of Anne Frank (on all the death of the two sisters in Holland 1954 "One, two, three, four / The only girl I've ever loved / Was born with roses in her eyes / But then they buried her alive / One evening 1945 / With just her sister at her side "- Anna and Margot died in 1945 of exanthematic typhus in Bergen-Belsen and in Oh Comely"I know they buried her body with others / her sister and mother and 500 families / and will she remember me 50 years later / I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine").
The crescendo of the trilogy of "King of Carrot Flowers"Is the exact prelude to a totalizing eponymous piece ... which lands, like a blow to the heart, in the intense melody of"Two-Headed Boy”Whose reply, broken down, will dismiss both personal and ecumenical work. Among the grooves there is also space for the instrumental, an almost funeral march from the orchestra-band of "Fool".
"In The Airplane Over the Sea", recorded in Denver in the Pet Sounds Studio of Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo, became a commercial success for the Indie scene of the time reaching the 100.000 copies sold.
Marco Sica
