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With the arrival of his breakthrough single “she only likes me when i’m drunk,” frumhere introduced the world to a dreamlike form of lo-fi touched with the sweet haze of nostalgia. Revealing both his raw emotionality and sophisticated musicianship, each new body of work from the L.A.-based artist/producer centers on his hyper-imaginative and deeply personal storytelling. To that end, the lifelong musician also known as Quentin Mulligan builds many of his tracks around the countless voicemails he’s saved up since his early teens. “A lot of my songs come from looking back on specific moments in my life, then using them as a jumping-off point to whatever I’m creating,” he notes. Raised in Santa Monica, California, Mulligan took up classical piano at age eight and started competing at the national level within several years. After graduating from the prestigious L.A. County High School for the Arts, he attended CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies in New York City. Although he spent much of his time studying at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, he also began looking beyond the classical world and experimenting with production. Soon discovering his affinity for lo-fi, Mulligan started posting on SoundCloud under the name frumhere. “In the beginning I got a lot of people asking, ‘Where are you from? You sound like an East Coast producer,’ or ‘You sound like a West Coast producer,’” he explains. “And I’d just tell them, ‘It doesn’t matter—I’m from here.’”