In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel
Released	February 10, 1998
Recorded	July-September 1997
Length	39:55
Label	Merge • Domino
Producer	Robert Schneider
Previous	On Avery Island
Next	Ferris Wheel On Fire

The Aeroplane

Track Listing

1. The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 - 2:00
2. King Of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3 - 3:06
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - 3:22
4. Two-Headed Boy - 4:26
5. The Fool - 1:53
6. Holland, 1945 - 3:12
7. Communist Daughter - 1:57
8. Oh Comely - 8:18
9. Ghost - 4:08
10. Untitled - 2:16
11. Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 - 5:13

Personnel

• Jeff Mangum – guitar, vocals, organ, floor tom, bass guitar, tape, shortwave radio, art direction
• Jeremy Barnes – drums, organ
• Julian Koster – Wandering Genie organ, singing saw, bowed banjo, accordion, white noise
• Scott Spillane – trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, euphonium, horn arrangements
• Robert Schneider – home organ, air organ, bass, backing vocals, piano, horn arrangements
• Laura Carter – zanzithophone (tracks 1, 5, 9)
• Rick Benjamin – trombone (tracks 6, 9)
• Marisa Bissinger – saxophone (tracks 6, 9), flugelhorn (tracks 7, 9)
• James Guyatt – percussion
• Michelle Anderson – Uilleann pipes (tracks 6, 10)
• Chris Bilheimer – art direction
• Brian Dewan – illustrations

Trivia

• This was Neutral Milk Hotel's final album recorded and released as a band.
• The songs greatly involve the story of Anne Frank during the Holocaust.
• The song "Untitled" later became known as "The Penny Arcade in California," after the band saw a girl at a California penny arcade who looked just like Anne Frank.