So I recently picked up the 33 1/3 book about Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and was totally shocked to see Fortune & Maltese mentioned on the first page. Have you guys heard about this?
The author is Kim Cooper and in the introduction she’s talking about how she wrote a zine and got tons of boring-ass shit sent to her for review cosnideration. But every once in a while something interesting and great would come along, and she listed Fortune & Maltese as one of her examples.
I don’t have the book on me so I can’t give the exact quote right now. But damn! Pretty cool.
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Here’s the first paragraph:
<blockquote>Editing a fanzine in the 1990s was an open invitation for young bands to send me their music. At first, the flood of albums, cassettes, seven-inches and (ultimately) CDs was a thrill, but I soon grew to dread the postman’s call. There was no way to listen to all of this product, or to form coherent opinions about it. So wen something both contemporary and extraordinary was slipped over the transom, it really made a splash. My weary ears knew rare glee on finding If You’re Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian, Chicago chamber pop gems the Chamber Strings, the psychedelic Solar Flares and frat-rock revivalists Fortune & Maltese in the review pile. Neutral Milk Hotel first impressed (On Avery Island) and then astonished (1997’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, which is why you’ve cracaked this little book’s spine).</blockquote>
Not bad company…