Jeff Mangum

Jeff Mangum is an American singer, songwriter, and multiinstrumentalist, best known for his work as the lyricist, vocalist and guitarist of the band Neutral Milk Hotel, as well as being one of the cofounders of The ElephantRecording Company. He is best known for his complex, lyrically dense songwriting, apparent on the critically lauded album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Mangum was born in Ruston, Louisiana, where he met the other cofounding members of Elephant 6, Robert Schneider, Will Cullen Hart, and Bill Doss. Together they shared a passion for home recording, influenced by the likes of the Minutemen, John Cage, and 1960s psychedelia. Mangums earliest musical projects included Maggot , Cranberry Lifecycle and Synthetic Flying Machine . In the early 1990s Mangum, Hart and Doss moved from Ruston to Athens, Georgia and Synthetic Flying Machine evolved into Olivia Tremor Control, led primarily by Hart and Doss. Mangum has contributed vocals, drums and sound effects to many of the Olivias subsequent recordings, including their debut EP California Demise, released in 1994 on the ElephantRecording Co. imprint.

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