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Neutral Milk Hotel only made two studio albums, but the one that gave the band a cult following was its last.
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea became a pop culture phenomenon. You likely know someone who was obsessed with this record even
Parks And Recreation’s notoriously apathetic April Ludgate’s “thing” was a huge Neutral Milk Hotel fan. It was unlike anything else released in 1998; who ever suspected that a concept album of sorts, with songs about Anne Frank and Jesus, would or could explode like
In The Aeroplane did? But all the adulation tends to overshadow its predecessor, 1996’s
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Throughout 2020, punk bands and fans wondered how anyone could generate and sustain a wave of excitement without the usual dues-paying opening slots, five-band gigs or breakout Fest sets. The brash Floridians in Home Is Where might still do that eventually, but theyâve excelled in the compact spaces that serve as proving grounds in 2021: TikTok, Twitter, and 18-minute albums. On their bracing first official LP
I Became Birds, Home Is Where talk a big gameâabout power structures, trans rights, and especially about fifth-wave emo. Brandon MacDonald mostly expresses themselves in uncanny bursts of imagery, so the few times they are direct are rare enough to quote in full: âcops are flammable, if you try,â âLook at all the dogs/I wanna pet every puppy I see,â âHow long has it been since a president got assassinated?â (mind you, âThe Scientific Classification of Stingraysâ was initially released in October 2020). Th
After producing his first album with his music group, musician Jeff Mangum walked into a bookstore. He purchased a copy of “The Diary of a Young Girl” and began reading it. The story of Anne Frank and her family hiding until their eventual capture by Nazis altered Mangum for years to come.
Mangum spent about three days crying over Frank’s story and even had dreams about going back in time and saving her from her ultimate demise. His connection with the book would ultimately lead him to create one of the most perplexing, yet intriguing albums ever.
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American band formed in Ruston, Louisiana, in the 1980s. The band was typically categorized as creating indie-folk and psychedelic folk music, as their sound was truly unique compared to other bands.
May 3rd, 2013
I wasn’t greatly surprised by the vocally underwhelmed response of some on my Twitfacebooker-o-scope to news of Neutral Milk Hotel’s reunion on Monday. In recent years, the group have become indelibly linked to a certain indie-rock stereotype other indie-rock stereotypes like to drub (not least so they can affirm they’re not
that kind of indie-rock stereotype): the librarian, the sensitive type, with lyrics scrawled on their ever-present notepad, and possibly wearing glasses. A certain kind of emo. Twee. Well, if you saw out your teen years being not even a little bit twee and never copying a lyric down because it meant