(2014) Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
Review:
Ariel Pink is not an artist known for pandering to the mainstream. No sooner does he write a tune as catchy as, say, Round and Round (from 2010’s excellent Before Today album), than he seems determined to show the world he’s equally capable of putting out something utterly lacking in commercial appeal.
New album pom pom appears to be no exception. It was teased with the harmony-drenched, Byrdsian pop of Put Your Number In My Phone. Yet that was a red herring: pom pom also contains the kind of deranged, cartoon-voiced material – White Freckles, Jell-O – you imagine Frank Zappa might have considered rather far out. Depending on your point of view, it’s either Pink doing what Pink does best … or a completely disorientating experience.
Rating 8/10
Tracklist:
1. Plastic Raincoats in the Pig Parade
2. White Freckles
3. Four Shadows
4. Lipstick
5. Not Enough Violence
6. Put Your Number in My Phone
7. One Summer Night
8. Nude Beach A G-Go
9. Goth Bomb
10. Dinosaur Carebears
11. Negativ Ed
12. Sexual Athletics
13. Jell-o
14. Black Ballerina
15. Picture Me Gone
16. Exile On Frog Street
17. Dayzed Inn Daydreams
Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: Psychedelic pop, indie rock, lo-fi, chillwave
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~773-954 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
