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― 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
never really dug this dude before but this joint is ill
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
the songwriting seems more key, its more poised & elegant and less crazed rs moore, amateur fan in the bathroom. maybe I wish the relationship between those two sounds was more up for grabs for more ppl, but I am a guy that just wants to see more love from ppl all the time anyway
― ogmor, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
almost every song sounds like a direct pastiche for another band/song.
but it's a professional theft.
― Zeno, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Album sounds good on one listen but nothing sounds as great as "Round and Round"
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Round and Round is the sort of a song i usually likes at first, but after awhile neglect it in favour of the more sophisticated,less immediate stuff, that lingers longer
― Zeno, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm having trouble figuring out why all of Ariel's previous albums were largely ignored and yet the leak of this one is an internet-wide musical/cultural event.
― skip, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
cause of THE PRODUCTION
and the single i guess
― Zeno, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm having trouble figuring out why you've apparently chosen not to read any of this thread
― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
in terms of songwriting - it's still kinda "difficult"xpost
― Zeno, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
also apparently he is influential now iirc
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ive listened to this on repeat all day and agree with zeno. even though "round and round" is more immediate, the other songs virtues are starting to really shine through. its def a grower and conducive to close listening. from what i can tell this album is going to please many different types of people. also the varied comment upthread is otm, but its still cohesive soundwise.
― oscar, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
also lol at "beverly kills" sounding like a boogie/freestyle track and a stereolab b-side
― oscar, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like a trivia game: guess the origin of the song.for example:
Little Wig = mercury rev's Syringe Mouth
― Zeno, Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I listened to this while working, so I wasn't entirely focused on it, but what hit me a few times while listening to this was a sort of deja vu feeling of listening to side 2 of the Cure's
Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea
― richie aprile (rockapads), Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ formatting, those were supposed to be italics
haha - haven't heard the new one, but I always felt that there was a distinctive Cure thing all over his music. SoaB b-side is a good reference point, with that similar murky, underwater bass sound that permeates some of these songs
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 April 2010 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link
can someone point me to some places where this is an "internet-wide cultural event"? what internet are you on?
this is a serious question
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
new single posted on tons of blogs, reported on pitchfork, etc. It's not different from the media buzz around your average indie p4k band but I don't recall any of that for past Ariel Pink releases.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=%22ariel+pink%22&graph=weekly_img&sa=N
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
my theory is that since dude released like a zillion albums from '04-'07 before going quiet for a couple years, he's getting a lot of "oh hey, ariel pink, I remember sorta-liking what I heard of that guy -- wonder what he's up to now?" general-interest clicks
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link