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Alton Plumtree Anderson (born 14 January 2000), better known as Plum Anderson, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer. Anderson records at home in Sacramento, CA, producing pop songs through a lens of 70s jazz fusion and 80s new wave influences. Anderson released Two Voices, an album composed and recorded entirely by Plum Anderson and mixed/mastered by Natural Death on August 25th, 2018. Anderson is also a primary songwriter in the jazzy soft rock quintet Mediocre Cafe and is featured on many of the keyboards on their 2020 album Easy Listening.

Anderson is a part of the current Sacramento DIY indie scene, home to musicians such as Helladusty, The Varunas, Rosemother, and Taylor Kohl. He is also known for his distinctive production, which features heavily effects-laden keyboards along with his use of woodwinds and percussion. Since the beginning of Anderson's musical trajectory, he has sought to combine the various sounds from each of the corners of his musical influences into singular songs. One corner is his obsession with bossa nova and samba sounds from artists such as Marcos Valle and Astrud Gilberto, another is of home-recording artists such as R. Stevie Moore and Cleaners from Venus, and the last is long-lasting love for the sounds of 90's shoegaze and indie rock from bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Pavement.

Early life
Anderson was born Alton Plumtree Anderson on January 14th, 2000 in Placerville, California. He was educated at a tiny Christian grade school with less than 20 other classmates called Wisdom Tree Fellowship and then graduated high school at a similarly small charter school called Smith Flat. At age six, Anderson began taking piano lessons, learning the basics of music theory and classical songs. Two years passed, and Plum felt he had to break away from the classical and contemporary style of lessons and instead taught himself how to play in the style of jazz through learning chords from Davis and Hancock then eventually Tyler, the Creator songs. As Anderson felt he had found his own understanding of music theory, he started teaching himself the instruments that his hoarding grandfather could lend him, such as guitar and bass. By the time Anderson was 14, he began performing as frontman on vocals and guitar in indie rock bands in his rather rural hometown in the Sacramento area. One of these bands was called Cardboard Houses. Even at this time, Anderson sought to combine the punk style that his bandmates often wanted to play in, with jazzier chord progressions and a guitar-playing style heavily inspired by Kevin Shields. Cardboard Houses found moderate success as a high school DIY scene experiment, but Anderson felt he wasn't using his musical ability in a way that was fulfilling to him, and began working on the demos that soon defined him as the whole different artist that he became.