Ariel Pink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDXZQyS0i0

<3 <3 <3

wow
"Los Angeles’ notorious lo-fi pop oufit Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti have been unveiled as the latest signings to 4AD. The group are currently recording their first record for the label, due spring 2010."

o_O

Ariel and 4AD... that's such an insane combination it can only work out brilliantly.

Seems like a great fit, though 4AD certainly isn't the label it used to be, after the Beggars Banquet merger.

OMG I LOVE THIS NEW SONG

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2010/03/mp3-new-ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti.html

Would I like Ariel Pink?

good song, but i am almost tempted to run it through some VST effects to simulate the dirty cassette tape sound of the older stuff.

I am loving the clean sound tbh

I don't blame the dude for moving on from the lo-fi. The new production is pristine. But for me, that dense layer of reel-to-reel-track-bouncing in a wood-paneled basement studio, and his sometimes off-key caterwauling, sort of made it possible to listen to what otherwise is 80s style smooth rock. I know that there's a lot more going on here in terms of weird FX and drones drifting in an out of the foreground, but I'm not sure I could listen to a whole album of this, unless there are some pretty weird excursions. Guy does have a great ear for melody, though. Song is one of his catchiest.

that's cool, 80s style smooth rock is like my favorite tho.

just out of curiosity, are you old enough to remember that kind of stuff being on the radio at, like, department stores?

I hope that doesn't sound ageist or anything - I just wonder if my own distaste for 80s smooth rock is because I had to suffer through it (it seemed to soundtrack particularly miserable times such as being stuck in TJ Maxx type stores, or dentist offices, as a kid), as opposed to looking back on it as an artifact. All the wobbly tape phasing and artificial aging of his earlier stuff allowed me to think of it as an artifact more than something I grew up with. if that makes sense.

nah, you're right. i was born in 85, but grooving to some hall & oates in tj maxx sounds like my kind of party.

Cover is pretty funny
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4425828992_705c6161e1_o.jpg

there was a lot more to his better stuff than lofi fm pop schtick, i don't know how you'd see 'trepanated earth' in those terms

this new thing is not so good

what's I've heard of where he's going I like, but my fondness for his whole deal - his melodies, the conversational phrasing of his weird lyrics, the whole vibe - is high

Fuck Hall & Oates. Ariel Pink is 1000x better.

Ariel Pink needs to invest in a rhodes piano and a sax player for his new band.

Nevermind, there's the rhodes piano sound. 1-2 minute dreamy sax solo (or two!!) and now we're talkin.

Don't know if I posted this anywhere else around here, but the one time I saw him live was pretty hilarious. He stood on the stage for like five minutes, pointed at everyone, screamed XANAX and then just ran outside. His band just kind of stood there dumbfounded and then one of the dudes was like "...alright" and they all busted into this really tight return to forever-like jazz fusion track. I was pretty drunk and went outside at some point and he was all hunched up against a dumpster in an alleyway looking like that lord of the rings guy. I walked up to him and went "I...uh...your music is pretty good." He kind of blinked and I left.

Sneak preview of Ariel Pink's new single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFH5pN9MEok

nah, "baker st." iirc

liking the new song but I agree that there's more to the guy than underproduced breezy AM rock. Trepanated Earth is a good example of the haunting side a lot of his songs somehow carry

I like this song a lot!

lol @ Spectrum

are u who I think u are btw

ok i'm on board with this new stuff

Yes guy has chops that transcend fidelity.

Round and Round is so swank. loving this shit

first jam of summer. well, it's sunny today, anyhow.

I tend not to dig Ariel Pink when he comes out from under those layers of crud. But this, this is pretty stunning. And it's far from 1980s soft rock soi-même; it's a pretty demented take on said genre. Which doesn't mean it wouldn't be great to hear him have a "Chasing Cars"-sized hit with it. Good show!

I was around for 80s style smooth rock, didn't like it then, love it now

Let's hear it for the boy.

hey, seany here.
as every1 knowz, im such a fucking fan of the a pink h graffitti , i mean we're talking fuckn 'doldrmz is like the best album ever' smashn ur gf to 'kate i wait' but then taking acid and telling alan palomo to get tacos with you. you blast 'strange fires' and he just goes 'god damn' im like yeah- make an album dude. then you get to the taco place and hes like. dude. have no money right now. but you cover him cuz at the time ur working at a dry cleaners. and you just livn in a haze like his chosen aesthetic until u know.. he learns how to craft into marketability.

just saying... this song fucking is like turning on the radio and like ur friend jumps in ur car, as u drive off the wind blows through your hair and your just like 'man we own these streets' and then you wreck and glass goes through both of your 'beaner hair' and while blood is gushing out, yo ushit yourself. then wake up. and realize you dont have a job anymore

^^^^knob

That sounds like shock to me, if you get in a wreck and blood is gushing from your "beaner hair" and you're thinking about employment. That's like riding your bike into a concrete electric pole and getting up and looking around for the crumpled napkin you were going to throw out.

diggin' the fuck outta this
reelect smooth music in '10

really liking this but I don't really find it that different from his old stuff

When the shit does this new record drop? What is it called?

it's a mystery!

hmmm the pitchdorks list "before today" as coming out 6/8 on 4AD in their guide to upcoming releases today.....

can't find info about that elsewhere though.

Ariel! Oh, Ariel!

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/beforetoda452.jpg

Chillwave forefather Ariel Pink and his band Haunted Graffiti are ready to release their first album for 4AD, dubbed Before Today and due out June 8 on CD, LP, and MP3. According to a press release, some of the 12-track album was recorded in Tito Jackson's former home studio with Quincy Jones' grandson Sunny Levine and Rik Pekkonen, whose past credits include Iggy Pop, Brian Wilson, and Ricky Martin (!).

"first album"

"chillwave forefather"

uh first album for 4AD

that album cover is somewhere between o_O and ^_^

rather look at that cover than the one of a guy frenching a dog tbh

pretty psyched for this album

haha, I had completely forgotten that this used to have a different cover -- I was just commenting because the new one struck me as so... strange. it's like a pastiche of something that I can't quite place, and that may not have ever actually existed.

that was just the cover of the single (the one with the dog)