Ariel Pink - the L. A-based art-pop maestro hand picked by Animal Collective for their Paw Tracks record label back in 2003 - is bringing his Haunted Graffiti project to the U. K and Europe this summer. Pink signed to the label when Animal Collective discovered him on a 2003 West Coast tour, ending years of relative seclusion spent recording in the LA hills.
--- - |- "It is as though London stretched unbroken from St Albans to Southend in a tangle of ten-lane four-deck super parkways, hamburger stands, banks, topless drug-stores, hippie hide-outs, Hiltons, drive-in mortuaries, temples of obscure and extraordinary religions, sinless joy and joyless sin, restaurants built to resemble bowler hats, insurance offices built to resemble Babylon, all...
Well I seem to have missed the boat on this group but I wanted to plug the album any way in case you haven't heard it. This is some seriously lo-fi psychedelic pop with a very too cool for your indy school attitude. The music feels like a seriously hardcore bedroom project. The songs are all over the place. There are elements of Bee Gees, Elvis Costello, Beach Boys, and XTC. It's a really ...
Despite not having released a new album, Ariel Pink kept plenty busy in 2008. With his fellow Haunted Graffiti's, he toured all across the US with Chairlift , released Odditties Sodomies Vol. 1 - a collection of rare outtakes and unreleased songs, and began writing and recording songs for a new record that will be released in 2009. But luckily, you don't have to wait until the new year to ...
"hello friend. My name is Ariel Pink . You've probably read my name online somewhere, maybe your best friend burned you some of my older records, or perhaps you even think we've met at some time in the past. Baloney! Everything you think you know is WRONG- DEAD WRONG. THIS is me, naked, without the buffer of awful tape noise drowning out any lack of vision... "--Ariel Pink (via ) Is it too...
I already mentioned this thing briefly about a month ago, but Ariel Pink's weird-as-all-hell rarities compilation ODDITTIES SODOMIES VOL. 1 is available now here on black/pink vinyl. Or, for a little more $, you can order straight from Ariel, and get a one-of-a-kind handmade cover like the one pictured above, crafted by Geneva Jacuzzi. While the compilation -- made up mostly of demos and outtak...
--- - |- "It is as though London stretched unbroken from St Albans to Southend in a tangle of ten-lane four-deck super parkways, hamburger stands, banks, topless drug-stores, hippie hide-outs, Hiltons, drive-in mortuaries, temples of obscure and extraordinary religions, sinless joy and joyless sin, restaurants built to resemble bowler hats, insurance offices built to resemble Babylon, all...
Well I seem to have missed the boat on this group but I wanted to plug the album any way in case you haven't heard it. This is some seriously lo-fi psychedelic pop with a very too cool for your indy school attitude. The music feels like a seriously hardcore bedroom project. The songs are all over the place. There are elements of Bee Gees, Elvis Costello, Beach Boys, and XTC. It's a really ...