Ariel Pink

he was good at Music Hall of Wburg last year, I was skeptical going in cuz his live reviews are pretty mixed but it was a tight show

Saw him in Miami and his band was really tight, as some people have indicated above, but they were also boring, and they concluded the show with the worst freak-out jam of all time. Ariel was really high, trying to compete with Ida No, who fell off stage into the bar.

Sound check was three hours and doors opened really late. You couldn't tell at all that they'd put so much work into it, and the bass hurt all the audience's ears.

I'd rather have seen him with a guitar and keyboard and sampler and CDr set up, going solo like in those early shows which have been described as terrible. Ariel's drummer carried a lot of the weight, and his voice seemed to be higher in the mix than Ariel's. Ariel looked really old and a bit like the troll under the bridge from "Three Billy Goats Gruff."

I liked the CDs, especially the pop stuff, despite the occasionally plagiarized tune, but that show put me off for years. To the present, really.

That single up above sort of reminds me of when Beck decided he was a real singer and had to sing pretty, and started putting out (even more) boring records The production and voice clash. Also, the production haze of the earlier recordings is like a trick to get around how harsh hi-fi recordings often sound. Only in theory do I like the AM smooth pop aesthetic.

What did I just do. Post stuff. Give opinions.

He was AWFUL at Primavera last year...still, pumped for the new record, 'Round and Round' sounds wick.

three hour soundcheck?

Yes. We put the chess board away, but could've played two more games. I was pissed!

Not that the sound guy and opening bands couldn't have been blamed. And the management.

disappointed to find out he's a stoner. weed is boring. was hoping he was either a pillhead or totally clean and just naturally mental.

WEED is AWESOME-

The cover kinda reminds me of Lou Reed's 'Take No Prisoners' album...kinda like it...

disappointed to find out he's a stoner. weed is boring. was hoping he was either a pillhead...

wow

"Gettin' high in the morning" iirc

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damn sorry for the wack html

Wait, how is it a surprise that he's a stoner?

he was terrific and totally pro when i saw him 3 years ago (with band). new single sounds ok. i agree w/bamquern re: the vocals. same situation with that recent-ish (?) glass candy single where ida no's vox are devoid of much reverbhaze and just don't mesh. weed is awesome, btw.

add lucifer's friend s/t to the stack of "waht does this cover look like"

i thought of Ramones meets Ziggy Stardust covers

disappointed to find out he's a stoner. weed is boring. was hoping he was either a pillhead or totally clean and just naturally mental.

this is some of the weirdest I-demand-a-certain-image-from-the-artist stuff I have ever run across

xposts didn't mean to out him as a stoner (if indeed i did), thought it was well-known/obvious tbh...

wow - he's the first person ive ever heard of who smokes weed!

everyone in california smokes the doobage. even your mom.

I really wasn't serious, no do U care what drugs the dude does tbh. I'm just saying Miley Cyrus is probably a pothead. It's so normal these days that to hear stories about how he smoked a dump truck full of weed before a show is just kind of... mundane. I demand juicier drug details from my weirdo artists!!

wtf? that should be *nor do I care*

no do U care

lol u were high as a motherfucker when you wrote that

i thought of Ramones meets Ziggy Stardust covers

I'm getting a sort of cross between Ziggy Stardust and What's THIS For by Killing Joke...

xposts
it was a pretty mundane story, sorry! :) anyway it was a superb gig, his band were seriously chops-tastic, and the new song is grrreat. love that moment about two minutes in when the multilayered voices singing "Hold on!" break thru the haze. to paraphrase what someone said upthread about the album cover, it makes me feel nostalgic for something that I can't quite place, and that may not have ever actually existed. excited about the new album.

Cover reminded me of Desmond Child and Rouge

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ugh sorry so huge

oh man. wkiw ^ xp

tbh i hear AP is crazed w c0c@1n3 but more broadly i dont care

cocaine? pfft, nowadays i don't listen to anyone on anything less potent than dmt

just echoing the love for round and round

never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill

wkiw = ?

that song sounds like Washed Out
(and i like it)

would kick it with

ah thanx

never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill

agreed

never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill

― max, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:26 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

have you heard Can't Hear My Eyes? u gotta

leaked, btw.

yeah, and the album is aswesome.
the production of it is the best thing i've heard in awhile, which i guess is even a bigger achievement for him as a lo-fi artist (till now).
as for the tunes: a little more accessible, but the weird-psych is still going on with full power for most of it, and thank god for that.

every song sounds a somewhat different, though they all share the same vibe as a whole:
animal collective, mercury rev (little wig), stereolab (bright lit), air, fleetwood mac/chicago (can't hear my eyes). actually 70's softrock all over the place.
gotta love it.

Hoping we get at least one Aeroplane remix of a track from this album.

well this album pretty much owns

excited!!

what is a butt-house blondie?

the last track on this is pretty ace.. it's like a weirdo kraut wire tune

There's a zip on 4chan but i that sounds like a bad idea....

This might be the best thing he has done. Either that, or I'm getting carried away. Time will tell.

This one is going definitely going to net him a new audience. The production is excellent, shimmering and hazy, and shows he can work just as well within a more "produced" setting. Late 70's Fleetwood Mac aesthetic is definitely in place, plenty of weirdo lounge-pop; this has "LA Record" written all over it.

what are the lyrics of the chorus of "round and round"?

today i've been singing "i'm goin baaaaaack/ goin baaaaaack/ to the maaaaaaaaall"

now is the time alloted for ariel pink, huh. is this just 4ad publicity? or ppl hate lofi more than i thought. not sure what else helps an act like this move up a division as it looks like is going on.