new Mangum on the way??

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"hello again.

for the past few months ive been putting together the pieces of everything ive written in the past three years and its been a revelation. whenever i had the time ive been writing melodies and keeping them in my head for later, and songs just accumulate, im not waiting as some have said. i still dont know how we’re going to put it all together, the songs will have more noises and collages in them. because of that we dont know whether this will be korena pang or neutral milk hotel or michael bolton but that doesnt really matter. names are just a box we put things in to separate them, and we’re figuring out what box these songs go in.

we dont have a timetable for releasing the album yet, so dont get your hopes up for new songs now. if you want more “aeroplane” just ignore all of this, the songs are songs but they’re longer and more free. when jeremy came down after his tour we just spent days playing noise while screaming and it was incredibly liberating.

it has been so much fun that we will for sure be playing a show or two, probably more. freedom is a wonderful thing but at a certain point you need the routines of normal life. ive had that for a while but i realized last year at the show with the livys that the best sort of normal ive ever had was on the road with my friends. getting to gigs late with cars coughing and trombones smacking on doors, the giant egg leaks over the masses, the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days. it can never be the same but i need to get as close as i can to that again.

so thats all. everything is happening soon, this is the year.
thanks for listening. jeff."

hoax? for real? reactions?

davelus (davelus), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

Will it have Tom Selleck?

vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

There is really no way that you could improve upon Big Red, as far as man gums go.

scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well...neat! I never followed the cult of Mangum enough for this to be any sort of giant revelation...but bravo for anybody who's having fun playing music, I say. I'd go see him on stage.

Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

this has made me really excited!

aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am so excited about this news. I have wanted Jeff Mangum to come back for years now, this gives me hope to face another day.

smartypants (smartypants), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

pretty awesome news - itll be good to hear him sing again.

SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

NOW!! New and Improved MANGUM!!!!

"Gee, Mom, what is this -- it's GREAT. And so DIFFerent."
"Why, that's MANGUM son."
"Wow!"

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What the hell. I'm sorry.

If it's real, I'm excited. Very. But not really looking forward to the hinted "noise collages." Have you heard any of the very early Mangum home-recorded stuff? Rubbish. But since I think the man's got some genius in him, I'll anticipate any new music from him.

Ben Crazee (Ben Crazee), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm more excited by the potential for this being real then I am trepidatious that the work he's talking about will be his long-labored on sound collages. he does say he's got accumulated melodies and songs, so maybe the noise/collage aspect is just another layer of production rather than the actual form.

Pitchfork claims it was confirmed as being Jeff's post by Kelly Ruberto from Cloud Recordings.

davelus (davelus), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of picturing "the songs will have noises and collages in them" as "instead of a bridge, there'll be some sort of freakout or fuzzy tape thing." Somehow I'm thinking of Don't Wake Me Up by the Microphones. That wouldn't necessarily be terrible - isn't a sort of stoned, slightly nutty cacophony one of the things people dig about Neutral Milk Hotel?

Have you heard any of the very early Mangum home-recorded stuff? Rubbish.

Do you mean like "Everything Is Beautiful Here"? I like that one!

Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

NAOMI IS WHAT I DIG ABOUT NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL

SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

guest verse by swayze!

M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Double bill w/ Klaatu!

David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Orange Twin FIeld Works was good. What's everyone scared of?

shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be quite pleased if this turns out to be true.

Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

10 Bucks says his new stuff is going to sound like Olivia Tremor Control.

Adam Martin (paid in cigarettes), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's not true.

Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't know why I posted that before, I knew it wasn't true. I just wanted it to be. These dudes on the Decemberists board did it. They were talking about doing it before it got printed. But you know, eventually it'll be true.

Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Thursday, 29 June 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)


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