Agreed. PP was a miss
― calstars, Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:12 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:15 (seven years ago) link
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)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
(pom pom, i mean)
need more foggy texture
― calstars, Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:21 (seven years ago) link
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― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:26 (seven years ago) link
My feeling about Pom Pom is that it would've worked better as a series of singles and EPs
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:49 (seven years ago) link
not sure Pom Pom is that clear sounding as it sounds like it was mastered to TDK D120
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 8 June 2017 15:56 (seven years ago) link
he only ever has a few good songs per album imo
― flopson, Thursday, 8 June 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
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
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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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 June 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
black ballerina ruins that whole album
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 8 June 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
that song bangs, career highlight
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 June 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
love Pom Pom. Four Shadows is my jam. all those synths interlocking like a goth pyramid
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 June 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link
I go back to Before Today on a regular basis but never to Mature or Pom
― calstars, Thursday, 8 June 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
same
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 8 June 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Ban
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 June 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
New album September 15
http://media.pitchfork.com/photos/594a8cc805d15f7602c74992/master/pass/arielpinknewalbumcvover500x500.jpg
1. Time to Meet Your God2. Feels Like Heaven3. Death Patrol4. Santa’s in The Closet5. Dedicated to Bobby Jameson6. Time to Live7. Another Weekend8. I Wanna Be Young9. Bubblegum Dreams10. Dreamdate Narcissist11. Kitchen Witch12. Do Yourself a Favor13. 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.
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
― woman in the dunes, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Fantastic news! Great cover, too.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
sick
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
it would be sweet if "Do Yourself a Favor" was a cover of the Prince song
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
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!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
weird that "Acting" is included here when it was on a D-F album 2 years ago
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
I assume it's a different version or mix. Azealia Banks put out a cover of "Nude Beach A-Go-Go" before pom pom came out.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
a friend of mine that's a big ap superfan says there are some old songs on here, too - "I Wanna Be Young."
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
I think "Death Patrol" was the one in the fashion commercial.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
Another song off the new album. Love this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooWCSfO9t0
― woman in the dunes, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
Fuck that's good
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link
wow, that's great, I hope he's kept up the quality of these tracks for the whole album
production is fantastic on this, it's a much more stylised and listenable version of his early lo-fi sound, probably the best sound he's ever had
― ufo, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Whoa. Another home run imo. Total Video Killed The Radio Star vibes. This is shaping up really, really nicely.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm wondering if I heard a different track than you guys
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
def seems like a throwaway
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link
this is a load of shit
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:31 (seven years ago) link
the og video is taken offline? idgi
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
This leaked.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 13 July 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
It's good. The annoying tracks are really annoying, though. There's one about santa claus that does nothing for me. I kind of expected that from the title.
Funnily enough I listened to Pom Pom and Mature Themes last night and had the same thought...in equal parts brilliant and annoying
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Thursday, 13 July 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
What is the ratio of brilliant to annoying on the new one?
― Moodles, Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Wow, 2 months early. I'd rather wait...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
The brilliant/annoying balance on this seems closer to, say, Before Today than the last two. But you may wanna skip the first song
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Ariel Stinks
― calstars, Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
First song, while pretty annoying, has nothing on the Santa song. First song is more along the lines of your typical throwaway Ariel song.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 13 July 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
shit, I've been getting Before Today vibes from the singles. That blows. Last 2 are my favorites by him
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 July 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
I wouldn't worry too much. It's full of good songs. He wouldn't be Ariel without the jokey throwaway songs.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 13 July 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
Not a single "jokey throwaway" song on The Doldrums, his best album by a mile.
Not sure if I'm better off postponing or listening to it now. First reactions here are not encouraging.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 13 July 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
Album is great and not as goofy as his last two. Definitely contains at least three or four career highlights and is pretty consistently good in a way that reminds me, again, of Before Today
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 13 July 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
The Doldrums is my favorite Ariel Pink album, but he's released a variety of albums since that are most certainly full of those types of songs, particularly the last two.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 14 July 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
And I absolutely love Pom Pom, so I'm ok with that.