Ariel Pink

nah, you're right. i was born in 85, but grooving to some hall & oates in tj maxx sounds like my kind of party.

Cover is pretty funny
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4425828992_705c6161e1_o.jpg

there was a lot more to his better stuff than lofi fm pop schtick, i don't know how you'd see 'trepanated earth' in those terms

this new thing is not so good

what's I've heard of where he's going I like, but my fondness for his whole deal - his melodies, the conversational phrasing of his weird lyrics, the whole vibe - is high

Fuck Hall & Oates. Ariel Pink is 1000x better.

Ariel Pink needs to invest in a rhodes piano and a sax player for his new band.

Nevermind, there's the rhodes piano sound. 1-2 minute dreamy sax solo (or two!!) and now we're talkin.

Don't know if I posted this anywhere else around here, but the one time I saw him live was pretty hilarious. He stood on the stage for like five minutes, pointed at everyone, screamed XANAX and then just ran outside. His band just kind of stood there dumbfounded and then one of the dudes was like "...alright" and they all busted into this really tight return to forever-like jazz fusion track. I was pretty drunk and went outside at some point and he was all hunched up against a dumpster in an alleyway looking like that lord of the rings guy. I walked up to him and went "I...uh...your music is pretty good." He kind of blinked and I left.

Sneak preview of Ariel Pink's new single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFH5pN9MEok

nah, "baker st." iirc

liking the new song but I agree that there's more to the guy than underproduced breezy AM rock. Trepanated Earth is a good example of the haunting side a lot of his songs somehow carry

I like this song a lot!

lol @ Spectrum

are u who I think u are btw

ok i'm on board with this new stuff

Yes guy has chops that transcend fidelity.

Round and Round is so swank. loving this shit

first jam of summer. well, it's sunny today, anyhow.

I tend not to dig Ariel Pink when he comes out from under those layers of crud. But this, this is pretty stunning. And it's far from 1980s soft rock soi-même; it's a pretty demented take on said genre. Which doesn't mean it wouldn't be great to hear him have a "Chasing Cars"-sized hit with it. Good show!

I was around for 80s style smooth rock, didn't like it then, love it now

Let's hear it for the boy.

hey, seany here.
as every1 knowz, im such a fucking fan of the a pink h graffitti , i mean we're talking fuckn 'doldrmz is like the best album ever' smashn ur gf to 'kate i wait' but then taking acid and telling alan palomo to get tacos with you. you blast 'strange fires' and he just goes 'god damn' im like yeah- make an album dude. then you get to the taco place and hes like. dude. have no money right now. but you cover him cuz at the time ur working at a dry cleaners. and you just livn in a haze like his chosen aesthetic until u know.. he learns how to craft into marketability.

just saying... this song fucking is like turning on the radio and like ur friend jumps in ur car, as u drive off the wind blows through your hair and your just like 'man we own these streets' and then you wreck and glass goes through both of your 'beaner hair' and while blood is gushing out, yo ushit yourself. then wake up. and realize you dont have a job anymore

^^^^knob

That sounds like shock to me, if you get in a wreck and blood is gushing from your "beaner hair" and you're thinking about employment. That's like riding your bike into a concrete electric pole and getting up and looking around for the crumpled napkin you were going to throw out.

diggin' the fuck outta this
reelect smooth music in '10

really liking this but I don't really find it that different from his old stuff

When the shit does this new record drop? What is it called?

it's a mystery!

hmmm the pitchdorks list "before today" as coming out 6/8 on 4AD in their guide to upcoming releases today.....

can't find info about that elsewhere though.

Ariel! Oh, Ariel!

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/beforetoda452.jpg

Chillwave forefather Ariel Pink and his band Haunted Graffiti are ready to release their first album for 4AD, dubbed Before Today and due out June 8 on CD, LP, and MP3. According to a press release, some of the 12-track album was recorded in Tito Jackson's former home studio with Quincy Jones' grandson Sunny Levine and Rik Pekkonen, whose past credits include Iggy Pop, Brian Wilson, and Ricky Martin (!).

"first album"

"chillwave forefather"

uh first album for 4AD

that album cover is somewhere between o_O and ^_^

rather look at that cover than the one of a guy frenching a dog tbh

pretty psyched for this album

haha, I had completely forgotten that this used to have a different cover -- I was just commenting because the new one struck me as so... strange. it's like a pastiche of something that I can't quite place, and that may not have ever actually existed.

that was just the cover of the single (the one with the dog)

it's like a pastiche of something that I can't quite place, and that may not have ever actually existed.

Haha yeah totally, I'm mentally flipping through "iconinc" 70s classic rock covers to find the original.

i think "a pastiche of something that never actually existed" might be an interesting way to describe ariel...

i dig the leather pants. definitely gonna be an L.A. album...

xp tho what's with the glowing white witch?

"chillwave forefather"

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx)

smh

He sort of is though?

yeah I get the meaning but its just pretty wtf to see this so-called genre already referencing its forefathers. Guess I'm just old.

The new album is really good.

man, i played a show with this dude like five years ago. i kinda liked the record, but his live show was alot of him slapping his ass yelling "pee pee doo doo."

If you would have pulled me aside and said, "In 2010, all indie rock will sound like this," I would have stared a dagger into your soul.

hope his full time band means the live show has improved (just bought tickets for the mercury lounge show).

actually last time i saw him, on the tour with cass mccombs, he was pretty good.

I saw him at SXSW in 2005 (I think) and the show was transcendent. His show next year at SXSW was awful (embarrassingly so since I dragged a few people to witness the glory). And so it goes...

Youtube evidence would lead one to believe that the band is pretty tight imo.

saw him with I guess the new band in Dublin last year, tight as fuck (apart from AP himself who was shambolic in a v charismatic way - apparently his rider called for an enormous quantity of weed, most/all of which was consumed pre-show).