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Jeff Mangum, the Salinger of indie rock

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:19 PM EST

Article Source: Slate

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Ten years ago this month, a songwriter from nowhere and his ramshackle band brought out one of the few truly great albums of this generation, a musical curio so gloriously odd that it almost defies explanation. The group called itself Neutral Milk Hotel, and the record, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, is a concept album about Anne Frank in which vocals about lost Siamese twins and semen-stained mountaintops mingle with the sounds of musical saws, fuzzy tape loops, and an amateur psychedelic brass band.

Mangum created one of the best albums ever made then disappeared. Hopefully, for our selfish sakes, he someday decides he has more to say, musically.

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I caught some tracks from this album and curiously enough it stirs the soul and makes you think about how bollockesed up this planet is. Hope from the future is reeling from the horrors of the past, and the hatreds we thought were over after WW2 were only synthetically removed and replaced by a more advanced kind of venom. Vote for Obama and hope that Hillary will either be his running mate or Secretary of State. And, perhaps Michael Bloomberg will be his VP. Now that would really set heads on fire, an AA president, a Jewish VP and a woman with extreme experience as lead diplomat.

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