Ariel Pink

new panda bear ep!

ok ok ok ok ok (this album)..wow.

I would like to say that I have no interest in working with mermaids /[fakereceivedpronunciationenglishaccent]

This sounds like Mr Bungle

elo vs. tubeway army

Sounds more like Zappa than ever. They weren't lying about this being his magnum opus though. Pretty much untouchable record.

Half good half shit.

Where's the shit?

curious to hear it. enjoyed "before today" and "mature themes" is okay but i really do feel like a substantial part of the AP appeal for me was having these weird pop tunes submerged in hazy lo-fi crud, i actually did feel like the production served his tunes really well, that whole aesthetic can suck for a lot of other bands but for his shtick i think it really worked.

I want to know what filters Pink uses on his voice, or microphones. The delivery on "Cocaine man has got a Portabello world" for example.

Haha holy shit this record! Ariel really Zappa-ing out the very best of his tune-smithery and shenanigans. This beats BT and MT by miles and miles. And yet it's not a return to Doldrums either. I can see why he left off the Haunted Gaffitii part of the name for this. As it is truly something else, even for him and his extensive back catalogue. Continues to amaze, this guy.

So many songs on this that are instant classics. 'Picture me gone' for one. Amazing.

"Plastic Raincoats in the Pig Parade" is so so incredibly sad for such an upbeat song.

Jell-O is the best song in the history of the universe right now. Whatever universe. The sound of the band Yellow combined with maximum riffage combined with teenage Cobain like lyrics ("mom and dad are normal, everyone eats white bread, that's why they're all dead"), combined with stadium rock, combined with Beefheartian style switches... I am perplexed: as a long time follower, Ariel Pink gone done it again.

curious to hear it. enjoyed "before today" and "mature themes" is okay but i really do feel like a substantial part of the AP appeal for me was having these weird pop tunes submerged in hazy lo-fi crud, i actually did feel like the production served his tunes really well, that whole aesthetic can suck for a lot of other bands but for his shtick i think it really worked.

This kind of sounds like the old ones, but doesn't. It's the best of his "new style." I've been wanting the same thing.

who wants to go to the emotional olympics!!?!
boooo

All these descriptions are really making me want to hear this. I think he's always had a latent Zappa sensibility, so it's cool that it's coming to the fore now

Each song is a mini-masterpiece that blossoms with each listen. Magnum opus indeed!

pom pom is also noticeably LOUDER than most everything in my iTunes... a/b-ing with Mature Themes is crazy

Jell-O is the best song in the history of the universe right now

That whole side (side 3 on the vinyl?) is my favorite. "Sticky cubes of Kool-Aid action"

I miss the more personal,intimate Ariel Pink songs, like Gray Sunset, The People I'm Not etc...
It seems he somewhat lost it in a Todd Rundgren's Wizard True Star kinda way.

but thats todd's masterpiece

Ariel Pink Performs "Jell-o" and "Picture Me Gone" with P.S. 22 Chorus of Fifth Graders

Looking like a Cool Dad right there

" Like, you guys can burn me on the stake for being an asshole. I'll be the biggest asshole, the biggest troll. I love the [infamously homophobic] Westboro Baptist Church, because I love being able to remind people that this a country where you can say, "You're going to go to hell," and you won't go to jail. People hate that. They hate that these people are allowed to do what they're doing, but they're just exercising their free speech, and it doesn't hurt you. They're just inciting. They're trying to play into your weaknesses, and they're doing it very well, because they're going to get your revenge fantasy on them. And you'll do it carelessly without any remorse, because you didn't get the right message from the lesson, and because everybody's just getting lost in the fucking giant miasma of opinions, and there's no sense to be made out of them."

update interview: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9498-ariel-pink/

haven't heard the new album yet but if ilx is touting it despite pink's odious personality it must be something special

xpost why does every dipshit that holds that opinion act like he's the first to have it

has ariel found out about 4chan yet?

someone made dizzy by the contours of a pretzel might be impressed by that opinion

dude has eaten some cosmic shape-shifter pretzels

this formula 1 track is complicated, but imagine if it were as complicated as a pretzel!!!
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it's amazing how much of an asshole this talented man is

surely assholeness in humans is far more common than talent?

he has both in concentrated doses

and they react to produce yawns

"pom pom" is the first album where he sounds 100 percent sure of himself. almost like he turned into the fake rock star he imagined in his head decades ago.

the asshole/troll stance goes right along with it too

surely assholeness in humans is far more common than talent?

― Mordy, Monday, October 27, 2014 10:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is so much sadness in this album. it's haunting... the mood swings just within "Sexual Athletics," the 'sex king' rock strut pose, the delusions, then the xylophone section... "all i wanted was a girlfriend all of my life" ...

AP is playing the heel to promote this album, he's doing Ann Coulter and it's working.

My good friend knows AP very well. I told him to tell him to take it easy with these wacky interviews, he's getting people angry and my friend laughed and said "he doesn't give a fuck."

yeah the whole thing has the queasy end of the world feeling to it. just totally baffling. even the joke songs sound totally menacing

I mean, we're not likely to see AP live another 10 years, it feels like.

I had a dream he did UK Celebrity Big Brother last night

the first half of this record is much better than the second imo, when he goes all zappa-ish. (except for Picture Me Gone and Dayzed Inn Daydreams, which are good too).

also, was he married to porn star Alisa Daniels?
or is it just the same name..

I'm blown away by the samples on this. The Gremlins theme song in Dinosaur Carebears is my fave. And what in the fresh hell is the source of that excited gibberish at the end of Negativ Ed??

Is it too soon to call this AP's 'Trout Mask Replica'? It probably is, yet I do think ultimately this is the case.

No small feat to return to your lo-fi roots after two hit 'hi-fi'-albums and turning everything inside out again. I still don't love nearly half of the cuts on here, but can already feel the lure, knowing I will love them soon. The easy to love songs just pull you in, and then there's no way back but to love the shit out of this.

Another thing- The sound recording on this album is really really good. Haven't heard an album mixed and engineered as well as this in long time.

still haven't heard it but yea even the doldrums or worn copy have ton of crap on them, but for me the crap is all part of the big picture imo with this dude. i am worried though that i know too much about AP now that might affect how i hear it. not talking exclusively about the sexist dumbfuckery that he spouts all the time, i mean that's part of it for sure, but more just that i think i kind of enjoyed his music more when i didn't know too much about him, that he just seemed like some anonymous weirdo savant putting out all these bizarre muffled lo-fi pop songs contributed more to the whole "haunted graffiti" aesthetic, with these songs all being these ghost shells of 60s, 70s, and 80s pop hits i heard on the radio growing up. i still appreciate his general zappa-esque quirkiness but tbh some of those older albums, before i knew much about AP, creeped me out in a way that was really interesting and intriguing.

i mean "before today" is really good but i never identified with all the "wow AP finally puts these songs through some proper production and makes his definitive album!" bullshit. the fact that so many of the early albums were half-finished songs, shitty recordings, etc. was always part of the picture for me. those early versions of "round and round" are creepy as fuck, and yes they are not the pop masterpiece that "round and round" ended up being but their rough qualities served an aesthetic really, really well. that aesthetic was always the most intriguing part of AP imo

but this

No small feat to return to your lo-fi roots after two hit 'hi-fi'-albums and turning everything inside out again.

It is not Trout Mask. Let's not exaggerate.
It does somewhat return to his lo fi roots with the main difference that he is much more confident and less humble (and that's a disadvantage imo)