Saturday, March 31, 2012

Mark's mini gig review: Jeff Mangum @ Union Chapel, 13/03/12

If Emo Philips had been eastern European and formed The Flaming Lips with half the crew they'd have been support act, The Music Tapes.
Jeff Mangum's voice rises and falls through a tumbling word stream like a penguin that's lost its footing on a particularly steep and slippery slope. His strumming arm remains conversely constant. The audience are so happy to see the Neutral Milk Hotel frontman at all they remain in rapt reverie and would ecstatically applaud his nosebleed. This is ok because he is geniously brilliant and worthy of such tonight. The tunes are acoustically beautiful. The bit at the end was wonderful.                       9/10

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