In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is less a plot than a web of images, many drawn from Jeff Mangum's response to reading Anne Frank's diary. Singing saw, fuzzed acoustic guitar and brass recur throughout, tying the songs together. Start with The King of Carrot Flowers suite that opens the record and let it pull you into the rest; the brass-band instrumental The Fool shows how much the arrangements carry the feeling.