Jeff Mangum
Jeff Mangum
Jeff Mangumis an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, 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 Elephant 6 Recording Company. He is best known for his complex, lyrically dense songwriting, apparent on the critically lauded album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth24 October 1970
CityRuston, LA
CountryUnited States of America
I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.
How strange it is to be anything at all
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through
Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.
I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life
There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.