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From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia

As psych-pop recluse Jeff Mangum returns, Mark Beaumont weighs up the influence of Neutral Milk Hotel and Elephant 6, while below Martin Aston talks to a kindred spirit, Bradford Cox of DeerhunterFor a certain breed of music fan, it was like hearing that JD Salinger was returning from the grave to read The Catcher in the Rye at the Hay festival. On 25 January, Jeff Mangum, the reclusive former frontman of Athens, Georgia cult legends Neutral Milk Hotel, announced his first major live appeara...

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23:00 on March 10 2011

From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia

Guardian Music — As psych-pop recluse Jeff Mangum returns, Mark Beaumont weighs up the influence of Neutral Milk Hotel and Elephant 6, while below Martin Aston talks to a kindred spirit,... more info