Ariel Pink

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!

weird that "Acting" is included here when it was on a D-F album 2 years ago

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.

a friend of mine that's a big ap superfan says there are some old songs on here, too - "I Wanna Be Young."

I think "Death Patrol" was the one in the fashion commercial.

Another song off the new album. Love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooWCSfO9t0

Fuck that's good

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

Whoa. Another home run imo. Total Video Killed The Radio Star vibes. This is shaping up really, really nicely.

I'm wondering if I heard a different track than you guys

def seems like a throwaway

this is a load of shit

the og video is taken offline? idgi

This leaked.

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

What is the ratio of brilliant to annoying on the new one?

Wow, 2 months early. I'd rather wait...

The brilliant/annoying balance on this seems closer to, say, Before Today than the last two. But you may wanna skip the first song

Ariel Stinks

First song, while pretty annoying, has nothing on the Santa song. First song is more along the lines of your typical throwaway Ariel song.

shit, I've been getting Before Today vibes from the singles. That blows. Last 2 are my favorites by him

I wouldn't worry too much. It's full of good songs. He wouldn't be Ariel without the jokey throwaway songs.

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.

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

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.

And I absolutely love Pom Pom, so I'm ok with that.