Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea the smiths Mark Doyle hunts down the

Mark Doyle hunts down the ghosts haunting Cale's most enduring solo album

their conceptual and artistic preoccupations and lyrical obsessions to provide new insights into one of the greatest records ever made

— Keith Cameron

before blowing apart on the verge of major rock stardom

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea the smiths Mark Doyle hunts down theOf all the recordings to emerge from the Athens via Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan's quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after Aeroplane's release. The record sells steadily to an audience that finds it