While it isn't a concept album as such, the continuity of music and themes, combined with the fact that in the liner notes for the album all the lyrics are written as one long run-on sentence means that the listener can't help but get the feeling that this album is very much telling a story. The album itself, you see, is completely extraordinary.
HANOI ROCKS WHISPERS IN THE DARK LYRICS FULL
Their first full length album, On Avery Island was underwhelming even without the benefit of hindsight, and frankly this album set the bar impossibly high for anything that Mangum might have been planning afterwards. It's not really surprising that the group informally disbanded after this, to be honest. While this group never got the mainstream attention that they so obviously had earned, during the late 1990s their fanbase pretty much defined "cult following", and never more so than with this album, the final release from Neutral Milk Hotel. Just in case any of you guys haven't worked this out all by yourselves yet, Neutral Milk Hotel are one of the bands that fell into this group, of which their frontman and creative mastermind, Jeff Mangum, was one of the founding members, along with members of The Apples In Stereo and Olivia Tremor Control. Like the parent that now gets to watch their children open their presents on Christmas morning, knowing how much they're going to enjoy them, you're in for a real treat once you start listening to the various projects that fall under the loose confederation of the Elephant Six Recording Company. Oh, what's that? Most of you have never heard of them? That's unfortunate, but in a way, I genuinely envy you. If there's one argument that I love to make against all those crazy people who reliably inform me that "modern music sucks", it's found in 5 simple words.
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