Ariel Pink

I meant "the best" as in great, not literally

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my gf recently pointed out that the voice at the end of 'are you gonna look after my boys?' is saying 'exit stage right'

'everytime i die at miyagis' is one of my very favourite songs

― flopson, woensdag 26 oktober 2016 1:19 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now that I've heard AP and Maus in a bar I feel like I can retire

Omg, where?

i once heard the crystal castles' song "plague" at the brooks brothers in palmer square in princeton. i mentioned this on ilx before and no one seemed to think it was notable.

it must have been a fluke though because it was followed up by the red hot chili peppers, which was really jarring

A bartender with good taste in music is a rare bird

Thought you meant you saw them play together... Am revoking most, but not all, of my initial enthusiastic response.

john maus and ariel pink (and some others) have made it so i can't put my spotify "daily mixes" on in the store where i work anymore. for some unknown reason spotify insists on playing "every night i die at miyagis" and "just wait till next year," the latter of which contains radically misogynistic lyrics

Did you think A and J were slumming it at some local shit hole?

In a perfect world they would be

I did :-S

You can click 'x' and remove songs from those playlists iirc? Your customers deserve to hear Miyagis. Everyone does.

'Every Night at Miyagis' might be Ariel Pink's best song, completely transcendent and believable as a lost AM radio hit, but it has that chop u bloody punani vagina me feast on placenta bit in the bridge. #BeYourself #FollowYourDreams

btw, one of the guys in Animal Collective posted this pic of a window in LA a few months ago with the caption: "Was standing in a LA parking lot with ariel pink last weekend when he pointed at this nearby window and said 'thats the room where i recorded house arrest, loverboy, scared famous, ff, and worn copy.'"

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQqjpXAFStP/?taken-by=anmlcollective&hl=en

'every night i die at miyagis'* xp

Good hashtags Flappy :)

The police's "darkness" sounds like a Before Today b-side

new song "Another Weekend"
https://soundcloud.com/mexicansummer/ariel-pink-another-weekend-1

7" coming out in August with b-side "Ode to the Goat (Thank You)"

yusss

Nice
Also on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/48LY9e7CmnQRt1baqNwQYl

Immersive sun-drenched faded 70s polaroid golden am radio Ariel is one of my three fave Ariel's. I dig this.

More than that. This is a fantastic tune.

It spaced me out on first listen and I couldn't even trap it all in my head. That's a good sign

Def. Also a good sign: I can listen to it on repeat for an hour. Classic Ariel, this. Glad he's "back". (I didn't care too much for Pom Pom)

Agreed. PP was a miss

wha???????????????????????

pom pom is his magnum opus... he finally blew his lo-fi sensibility up to widescreen, the first two 4AD records were dry runs... i'm shocked any AP fan wouldn't love pom pom. Before Today and Mature Themes I get.

tbf big sprawling messy double albums that allow artists to stretch out and experiment and explore more of their personality are absolutely my shit. i wouldn't cut a song from The White Album.

Haha, heart you Flappy but we'll have to agree to disagree. Pom Pom is trite, over the top widescreen (yes! and this is a bad thing!) drivel. The Doldrums is his trve magnum opus. But he's been fantastic after that (Can't Hear My Eyes alone, sheesh, sheer magic). Pom Pom burned too many bridges, and didn't come up with a new path to stick to. A 'return' (albeit one from the now, from 2017), to his lo-fi sensibility can only be applauded.

(Lo-fi or hi-fi though, if he gets back to writing tunes as strong as the new one, I couldn't care either way: widescreen or cassette it, it's fantastic)

it's too goofy and clean sounding, it doesn't have the foggy texture of the earlier stuff, the songs aren't a patch on his earlier ones, (i really like dayzed in daydreams, though), just not as enjoyable for me. it's like someone turned the lights on and the buzz has worn off.

(pom pom, i mean)

need more foggy texture

i liked pom pom when it came out but now quite a bit of it is completely unlistenable, it's too long and pushes his most irritating goofy tendencies to the forefront

it was better than mature themes & i don't have a problem with the cleaner production at all, the good stuff on it is really good

new song is nice

need more foggy texture

― calstars, Thursday, June 8, 2017 12:49 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My feeling about Pom Pom is that it would've worked better as a series of singles and EPs

not sure Pom Pom is that clear sounding as it sounds like it was mastered to TDK D120

he only ever has a few good songs per album imo

not sure Pom Pom is that clear sounding as it sounds like it was mastered to TDK D120

― PaulTMA, Thursday, June 8, 2017 11:56 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is otm, it's very saturated and claustrophobic. 'Put Your Number in My Phone' is wide-screen, re-listening last night I realized my opinion of the record was shaded by hearing that single on its own for a few months before the record. I love the way pom pom sounds but this new song is properly wide-screen, it has so much more space. feel like this is going to be a reflective, plain-spoken period for AP, the kind of record that would be self-titled with a weary portrait on the cover.

black ballerina ruins that whole album

that song bangs, career highlight

love Pom Pom. Four Shadows is my jam. all those synths interlocking like a goth pyramid

I go back to Before Today on a regular basis but never to Mature or Pom

same

he only ever has a few good songs per album imo

Ban

New album September 15

http://media.pitchfork.com/photos/594a8cc805d15f7602c74992/master/pass/arielpinknewalbumcvover500x500.jpg

1. Time to Meet Your God
2. Feels Like Heaven
3. Death Patrol
4. Santa’s in The Closet
5. Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
6. Time to Live
7. Another Weekend
8. I Wanna Be Young
9. Bubblegum Dreams
10. Dreamdate Narcissist
11. Kitchen Witch
12. Do Yourself a Favor
13. Acting (feat. Dam-Funk)

The album’s title makes a direct and heartfelt reference to a real-life L.A. musician, long presumed dead, who resurfaced online in 2007 after 35 reclusive years to pen his autobiography and tragic life story in a series of blogs and YouTube tirades. “His book and life resonated with me to such a degree,” Pink states, “that I felt a need to dedicate my latest record to him.”

Dedicated to Bobby Jameson begins at the end and ends at the beginning. “We follow the protagonist through a battery of tests and milestones, the first of which sees him reborn into life out of death,” Pink explains, referencing the opening track “Time To Meet Your God.” “From there, he seesaws his way between the innocent love and the rock- solid edifice of childhood-worn trauma that together constitute his lifelong initiation into the realm of artifice and theatrical disposability.

Video for "Another Weekend"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwe76N7J0EI

Fantastic news! Great cover, too.

sick

it would be sweet if "Do Yourself a Favor" was a cover of the Prince song

love these song titles. Santa's in the Closet. Kitchen Witch. Death Patrol. feel very much along lines of Fright Night maybe more of that goth rock flavor. i can't wait to listen to this!