The saddest thing about reading any description about Neutral Milk Hotel is that it inevitably starts with line "Neutral Milk Hotel was...", putting this band in the past tense, which yokes my heart with rusty tin buckets filled with lead-laden tears of sorrow for not having them around anymore. Though, back in 2008, Jeff Mangum did make appearances with the Elephant 6 Orchestra tour, so who knows what possibilities the future may yet hold?
This song, Holland, 1945, is a handwritten lovelorn letter on rolled up parchment with fresh dipped fountain pen ink smeared on the hand reaching back in time to leave a trail of white roses around the unfortunate struggles and lost life of Anne Frank and her family off of the album In an Aeroplane Over the Sea, quite possibly a near perfect album, if there ever was one, which there is, and it's called London Calling. Resting somewhere between the fuzzy line of punk and folk roots, this is certainly one of the more raucous songs from said album. Conveniently, this video includes the lyrics, which are certainly worth the time to puzzle through while running, if you so desire.
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