Jeff Magnum writes songs that read like bad dreams'''

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Jeff Magnum writes songs that read like bad
dreams...
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He inherits a world of cannibalism, elastic
sexuality and freaks of nature.
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We can only assume he likes it there.
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Neutral Milk Hotel is derived from the Elephant
6 music collective
Where Art-minded kids have to band together and
play music with each other.
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But small town isolation has produced oddly
fresh music
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Neutral Milk Hotel combines
with music that borrows from psychedelic rock,
folk, and jazz
to expose the listener to a bevy of emotions
expressed in "radiantly poetic fashion."
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For example, From the song Oh Comely
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Neutral Milk Hotel first released a series of
cassettes and 7 inch singles between 1991 and
1996
These are very rare and sell for large sums of
money
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"Jeff Mangum recorded this album while living in
a 6 by 6-foot walk-in closet.
He also does not own a phone
But he is one of the reasons that rock music,
almost in spite of itself, continued to matter in
1996." - Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
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Spin Magazine said this album is one of the ten
best "you didn't hear" of 1996.
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There are very few albums that resist
categorization quite so effortlessly as In
"Aeroplane Over The Sea."
Mangum sings as if possessed, painfully conveying
fractured and moving tales with the skill of a
brilliant novelist.
It's a surreal universe of sad, awkward emotions,
fanciful characters and equally colorful
instrumentation, like
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Flugelhorn
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Euphonium
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Uillean Pipes
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and the Zanzithophone
Which is an electronic MIDI saxophone that Casio
used to make.
Apperently no one took picture of it either.
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Magnet magazine named Neutral Milk Hotel the
artists of the year for 1998
CMJ New Music Report chose "Aeroplane Over The
Sea" as its album of the year.
Pitchforkmedia.com selected this as the 4 album
of the 90's
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Neutral Milk Hotel played their last show on
December 5th, 1998
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Then..nothing
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Some people thought he dropped off the face of
the earth
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Others thought he was kidnapped by a group of
rogue midgets
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But he wasn't
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He's really into Bulgarian folk music now.
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In 2001, Magnum released a compilation of
Bulgarian folk music
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And I think that's about it.
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All info and pictures from Pitchforkmedia.com Ne
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