The return of Jeff Mangum, cult legend

Union Chapel, London"Five years ago, I didn't think I'd be doing this," says Jeff Mangum, perched on a stool, skinny and intense. In that respect he is not alone. In 1999, shortly after Neutral Milk Hotel released their much-mythologised second album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the band's frontman abruptly retired. During the subsequent decade of rumours and wishful thinking, younger admirers all but gave up hope of hearing those songs live, until Mangum had an unexpected change of heart las...

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