Hey guys. TWOTHONY HEADEDBOYTANO here. The worlds busiest music

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Hey guys. TWOTHONY HEADEDBOYTANO here. The worlds busiest music nerd. Today we're going to be talking about the classic Areoplane Over The Sea album from Neutral Milk Hotel. A little history about the band. This is their second and last record, although they might be making more in the future. The album got a large cult following on a certain Mongolian basket weaving forum. Now, the albums opening track, titled King Of Carrot Flowers Part I is in a solid opener for an album. We get a strong acoustic guitar riff right off the bat, which leads us into the vocals. The strumming of the guitar is very fast and loud, but it doesn't over shadow the vocals. The vocals are audible and clear and they weren't just made louder through gain, or at least it doesn't sound like it. Later in the song we get some sort of distorted brass instrument in the background. I have to say this, not only about the opening track but the entire album, is that the lyrics always manage to be creative and interesting. They're dark but also quite funny at points. Very deep while still having a clear and precise theme and tune. The next songs are titled King Of Carrot Flowers Part II and III. I don't really know why these songs were titled as continuation songs to the opener. They not really connected, and they're right after each other. I felt that they could have just given the songs different names, or if they wanted to have them be connected so badly then they could have just made combined them into the same song. It's a minor complaint though. What's not so a minor complaint, is that at points in the album, the vocalist is either extremely good or kind of whiny. It's not through the whole thing, but at points in the songs the vocalist just kind of sounds like he's yodeling.