Wait, how is it a surprise that he's a stoner?
― how is abbott formed (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― hobbes, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
add lucifer's friend s/t to the stack of "waht does this cover look like"
― hobbes, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought of Ramones meets Ziggy Stardust covers
― Zeno, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts didn't mean to out him as a stoner (if indeed i did), thought it was well-known/obvious tbh...
― p-dog, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
wow - he's the first person ive ever heard of who smokes weed!
― Zeno, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone in california smokes the doobage. even your mom.
― Spinspin Sugah, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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!!
― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf? that should be *nor do I care*
no do U care
lol u were high as a motherfucker when you wrote that
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm getting a sort of cross between Ziggy Stardust and What's THIS For by Killing Joke...
― Gavin in Leeds, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
xpostsit 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.
― p-dog, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Cover reminded me of Desmond Child and Rouge
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vINIsD7pL.jpg
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh sorry so huge
oh man. wkiw ^ xp
― hobbes, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh i hear AP is crazed w c0c@1n3 but more broadly i dont care
― 69, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
cocaine? pfft, nowadays i don't listen to anyone on anything less potent than dmt
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
just echoing the love for round and round
never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill
― max, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
wkiw = ?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
that song sounds like Washed Out(and i like it)
― Zeno, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
would kick it with
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ah thanx
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
agreed
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 7 April 2010 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:26 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
have you heard Can't Hear My Eyes? u gotta
― dmr, Thursday, 8 April 2010 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
leaked, btw.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 April 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Zeno, Thursday, 8 April 2010 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Hoping we get at least one Aeroplane remix of a track from this album.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 8 April 2010 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
well this album pretty much owns
― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 April 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
excited!!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 April 2010 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what is a butt-house blondie?
― mizzell, Thursday, 8 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
the last track on this is pretty ace.. it's like a weirdo kraut wire tune
― Tom doesn't sleep.. Tom Waits. (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 8 April 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a zip on 4chan but i that sounds like a bad idea....
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 8 April 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
This might be the best thing he has done. Either that, or I'm getting carried away. Time will tell.
― SourPatchCorpse, Thursday, 8 April 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― oscar, Thursday, 8 April 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ogmor, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ariel pink is da best at basslines
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
s this just 4ad publicity?
partly, sure
or ppl hate lofi more than i thought.
hifi music is generally more accessible
not sure what else helps an act like this move up a division as it looks like is going on.
writing a single as good as "round and round"
― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xp OTM "alisa" por ejemplo
― 69, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
people like to think they're watching artists grow up and mature and grow, and this all fits into his whole narrative about shedding the bullshit and giving you the real, raw deal ariel pink.
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
chorus of the year so far imo
the raw pink
― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
can't wait to see this dude live
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
@ the hollywood bowl
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
ogmor: i'm listening to this album pretty loud in my living room atm and my stepfather just asked what artist this is, and said he was groovin to it and would check him out. he's not a total grump but i'm pretty sure if it were any other ariel pink album he would have just told me to turn it down or off entirely.
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
this album will fill the niche this year that the girls album did last year
― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Except I won't find it lacking.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
unsure how much ilm head-types differ from the dads of the world in lofi tolerance. I spose 4ad is the biggest factor; pretty sure plenty of ppl digging this wld have no clue if he'd recorded anything this good before, quality is necessary, not sufficient.
― ogmor, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been in and out of familiarity with Ariel Pink since the first stuff started coming out (way-too-hip weirdo music friends), and there's definitely been a shift to a more accessible songwriting style in that time. The lofi to hifi shift doesn't hurt things, but I don't think it really explains the sudden greater interest in the way the better/different songwriting style does. I mean, people went nuts over Times New Viking for a hot minute and they record things over a phone on an answering machine.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link