Neutral Milk Hotel

There's no real way for me to start this blog. I intend to review "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel. I'd like to get you to read it with a strong hook that makes you want to find out about the greatest band you've never heard of. But that would be inappropriate, I mean, Neutral Milk Hotel never relied on strong hooks to get people listening. They were about being raw, and more importantly, they were about outstanding writing. So I'll try and write this as well as I can.

The first track, "the King of Carrot Flowers Part One" opens the cd with a powerful F chord. Now, this is NMH's second album, but for most, as it was mine, this is the first song of theirs you hear, because this is the cd so often recommended. And if this is your first taste of Neutral Milk Hotel, you recognize right away that they are like nothing you've ever heard. A simple chord progression, and only Jeff Mangums voice, dubbed ever so slightly so that it sounds as if there are two of him. It's soothing, yet attention drawing.