Neutral Milk Hotel – Thema
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Neutral Milk Hotel war eine US-amerikanische Indie-Rock-Band. Die Gruppe um den Sänger und Songwriter Jeff Mangum veröffentlichte in den 1990er Jahren zwei Alben und zwei EPs. Mangum selbst beschrieb den Stil der Band einmal als Fuzz-Folk. Ihre Musik beeinflusste eine Reihe von Bands wie Arcade Fire oder The Decemberists.

I found Neutral Milk Hotel through a video by the YouTuber Whang!, and I listened to the album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and I was hooked. I’ve been listening to them for months now, and I listen to them almost every day. Every song is filled with so much emotion and talent.

They are an indie rock / psychedelic folk band. They specialize in very surreal lyrics set to purposefully low quality guitars among other unique instruments, all sang beautifully by Jeff Magnum. It would mean a lot to me if yall could give them a chance. I would certainly start with In The Aeroplance Over the Sea, it is actually a masterpiece.

  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    17 days ago

    It’s kind of funny to me that someone would need to introduce Neutral Milk Hotel to someone on the internet. “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” is like the quintessential album for online-music nerds around 2010, probably most notably on pitchfork and on 4chans /mu/ board (pretty sure the album art is still their banner) (although now looking up the youtuber you mentioned, i guess you already know all of that).

    It’s an absolutely wonderful album, can’t say I’ve listened to it a lot over the last few years, but one that I’ve returned to again and again, there’s just something so sweet and youthful about it, it’s existential but without a worry, serious and emotional, but still light-footed. The very simple chord progressions, unique instrumentation and somewhat experimental stylings really work wonderfully together.

    There are very few lines of lyrics I find more poignant than the end of the title track:

    And when we meet on a cloud I’ll be laughing out loud I’ll be laughing with everyone I see Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all

    If you are interested I can only recommend you read up on the history of the band and especially on the Elephant 6 collective the band spawned from and exploring the work of the other bands from the collective. There’s often times not a lot of overlap in terms of sound, but I feel it’s very enlightening to see where they came from, what their inspirations were and in how many different ways they manifested themselves (also I wish I was part of a cool art collective).

    • Slimecat11 [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I know, it’s just that I’ve tried to spread my enthusiasm and love for this band on other platforms and nobody ever responds or seems to care. I also want to put emphasis on the fact that they do have other albums such as Ferris Wheel on Fire, that yall should listen to as well it is great.