Neil Stephen Cicierega (/ˌsɪsəˈriːɡə/ SISS-ə-REE-gə;[1] born August 23, 1986) is an American musician, filmmaker, YouTuber, and animator.

His sister, Emmy, went on to become a storyboard artist for animated series such as Gravity Falls,[5] The Owl House, and the reboot of DuckTales.

[8] Animutations feature arbitrary, nonsensical scenes and pop culture imagery and are typically set to novelty or foreign music, often from the Japanese version of Pokémon.

It originated as a pair of Flash animations on Newgrounds in 2003, and later resurfaced in the form of a series of live action puppet shows released onto YouTube and PotterPuppetPals.com, starting in 2006.

[12] On July 10, 2018, it was announced that copies of the album on CD, cassette tape and vinyl would be sold through Needlejuice Records, who would later distribute remastered versions of Lemon Demon's Christmas EP I Am Become Christmas, as well as Nature Tapes, View-Monster, Dinosaurchestra, Damn Skippy, and Hip to the Javabean.

All four albums are linked by their usage of Smash Mouth's "All Star", which is repeated frequently throughout Sounds and Moods, and appears through Easter eggs and references in Silence.

Neil Cicierega, as well as his friends Ryan Murphy and Kevin James, form the sketch comedy group Guaranteed* Video.

[20] Cicierega was commissioned to make a number of songs for the TV series Gravity Falls; however, only one was used, this being "Goat and a Pig", which was used in the end credits of the episode "The Love God".