Changes to Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the... by Kim Cooper

Edited the description of Bill Doss: Cofounder of the ~~Elepgant~~Elephant 6 Collective, who later founded The Olivia Tremor Control with Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum.
Edited the spoiler-free description of Bill Doss: Cofounder of the ~~Elepgant~~Elephant 6 Collective

Edited a character: Robert ~~Scheneider~~Schneider: Jeff Mangum's childhood best friend, cofounder of the Elephant 6 Collective; helped Jeff through the recordings of both Neutral Milk Hotel's albums.

Edited the description of Jeff Mangum: Founded the Elephant 6 Collective together with Robert Scheneider, Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart and was also Neutral Milk Hotel's founder.

Edited the spoiler-free description of Robert Scheneider: Jeff Mangum's childhood best friend, cofounder of the ~~Elepgant~~Elephant 6 Collective.
Edited the description of Bill Doss: Cofounder of the Elepgant 6 Collective, who later founded The Olivia ~~Tremos~~Tremor Control with Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum.

Edited the description of Robert Scheneider: Jeff Mangum's childhood best friend, cofounder of the ~~Elepgant~~Elephant 6 Collective; helped Jeff through the recordings of both Neutral Milk Hotel's albums.

Added the description of Robert Scheneider: Jeff Mangum's childhood best friend, cofounder of the Elepgant 6 Collective; helped Jeff through the recordings of both Neutral Milk Hotel's albums.
Added the spoiler-free description of Robert Scheneider: Jeff Mangum's childhood best friend, cofounder of the Elepgant 6 Collective.
marked the description of Robert Scheneider as a spoiler
Added the description of Bill Doss: Cofounder of the Elepgant 6 Collective, who later founded The Olivia Tremos Control with Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum.
Added the spoiler-free description of Bill Doss: Cofounder of the Elepgant 6 Collective
marked the description of Bill Doss as a spoiler
Added the description of Will Cullen Hart: Cofounder of the Elephant 6 Collective and also of The Olivia Tremor Control.
Added the spoiler-free description of Will Cullen Hart: Cofounder of the Elephant 6 Collective.
marked the description of Will Cullen Hart as a spoiler

Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
Added the description of Jeff Mangum: Founded the Elephant 6 Collective together with Robert Scheneider, Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart and Neutral Milk Hotel's founder.
marked the description of Jeff Mangum as not a spoiler

Of 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 through word of mouth. Weird, beautiful, absorbing, difficult, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is a surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of immature erotic horrors. Mangum sings his dreamlike narratives with a dreamer's intensity, his creaky, off key voice occasionally breaking as he struggles to complete each dense couplet. The music is like nothing else in the 90s indie underground: a psychedelic brass band, its members self-taught, forging polychromatic washes of mood and tribute. The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heart-rending vision.

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