| Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti ≈ Mature Themes (2012) |
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti ≈ Mature Themes
Location: Los Angeles, California, U.S. // Birth name: Ariel Marcus Rosenberg
Born: June 24, 1978
Website: http://arielpink.com/
Notes: The lead single and closing track from the album is a cover of the Donnie and Joe Emerson song “Baby”. The song was met with positive reception from the music press, receiving a “Best New Track” by Pitchfork Media.
Album release: August 20 (UK); 21 (USA), 2012
Record Label: 4AD
Time: 50:48
Tracks:
01 Kinski Assassin 2.59
02 Is This The Best Spot? 1.47
03 Mature Themes 2.47
04 Only In My Dreams 3.12
05 Driftwood 4.22
06 Early Birds of Babylon 5.15
07 Schnitzel Boogie 4.35
08 Symphony of the Nymph 4.35
09 Pink Slime 2.11
10 Farewell American Primitive 2.55
11 Live It Up 4.03
12 Nostradamus & Me 7.25
13 Baby 4.49
Members:
≈ Ariel Pink, Tim Koh, Kenneth Gilmore, Joe Kennedy
Website: http://www.menopausemen.tumblr.com
Description:
≈ Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti will release its new album, Mature Themes, on Aug. 21, it’s the band's second album for 4AD and the official follow~up to its 2010 breakthrough album, Before Today. “Sonically, it’s comparable,” Pink says of the new work, 13 songs he’s only recently penned. • “There are definitely not any links to my lo~fi origins. It’s so diverse but so different from anything I've done before. In a sense, its really the record I wanted to make back when I made Before Today, but couldn’t due to pressures and different factors.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arielpinkshauntedgraffiti
Main manager: Michael Zanna /// 4 AD Presentation: West Coast natives Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti present Mature Themes, the follow~up to 2010’s hugely successful album, Before Today.
≈ Before Today was the band’s 4AD debut, offering the first sign that the intriguingly scatalogical music Ariel had been making for over a decade was finally ossifying into a coherent form. Indeed, the lead song from Before Today — the inimitable ‘Round and Round’ — was awarded Pitchfork’s track of the year for 2010, and further plaudits were heaped upon the long player as it cropped up in near~all end~of~year polls. For many it seemed that Ariel had finally reached the wider audience his early recordings had hinted was possible. And with Mature Themes, Haunted Graffiti have forged a record that raises the bar once again.
≈ Installing themselves in a studio space in downtown~LA, Haunted Graffiti began a lengthy process of writing and recording. Mature Themes is a self~produced affair, with former member Cole MGN drafted in to provide some drum programming and additional mixing duties. Far removed from Ariel’s early bedroom recordings, Mature Themes is a product of a more collaborative process, with the often~overlooked virtuoso musicianship of the band bought to the fore. “There are definitely not any links to my lo~fi origins”, Ariel recently told Spin magazine. “It’s so diverse but so different from anything I've done before. In a sense, it’s really the record I wanted to make back when I made Before Today, but couldn’t. We had time to let our hair down and try new things.”
≈ While the creative process was new, familiar Ariel Pink signatures remain. In fact, Mature Themes feels like the definitive Haunted Graffiti record, a patchwork of modern America, its esoteric reference points and moments of lyrical lucidity a twilight excursion through backwater LA and late~night TV channel hopping.
| Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti ≈ Mature Themes (2012) |
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti ≈ Mature Themes
Location: Los Angeles, California, U.S. // Birth name: Ariel Marcus Rosenberg
Born: June 24, 1978
Website: http://arielpink.com/
Notes: The lead single and closing track from the album is a cover of the Donnie and Joe Emerson song “Baby”. The song was met with positive reception from the music press, receiving a “Best New Track” by Pitchfork Media.
Album release: August 20 (UK); 21 (USA), 2012
Record Label: 4AD
Time: 50:48
Tracks:
01 Kinski Assassin 2.59
02 Is This The Best Spot? 1.47
03 Mature Themes 2.47
04 Only In My Dreams 3.12
05 Driftwood 4.22
06 Early Birds of Babylon 5.15
07 Schnitzel Boogie 4.35
08 Symphony of the Nymph 4.35
09 Pink Slime 2.11
10 Farewell American Primitive 2.55
11 Live It Up 4.03
12 Nostradamus & Me 7.25
13 Baby 4.49
Members:
≈ Ariel Pink, Tim Koh, Kenneth Gilmore, Joe Kennedy
Website: http://www.menopausemen.tumblr.com
Description:
≈ Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti will release its new album, Mature Themes, on Aug. 21, it’s the band's second album for 4AD and the official follow~up to its 2010 breakthrough album, Before Today. “Sonically, it’s comparable,” Pink says of the new work, 13 songs he’s only recently penned. • “There are definitely not any links to my lo~fi origins. It’s so diverse but so different from anything I've done before. In a sense, its really the record I wanted to make back when I made Before Today, but couldn’t due to pressures and different factors.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arielpinkshauntedgraffiti
Main manager: Michael Zanna /// 4 AD Presentation: West Coast natives Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti present Mature Themes, the follow~up to 2010’s hugely successful album, Before Today.
≈ Before Today was the band’s 4AD debut, offering the first sign that the intriguingly scatalogical music Ariel had been making for over a decade was finally ossifying into a coherent form. Indeed, the lead song from Before Today — the inimitable ‘Round and Round’ — was awarded Pitchfork’s track of the year for 2010, and further plaudits were heaped upon the long player as it cropped up in near~all end~of~year polls. For many it seemed that Ariel had finally reached the wider audience his early recordings had hinted was possible. And with Mature Themes, Haunted Graffiti have forged a record that raises the bar once again.
≈ Installing themselves in a studio space in downtown~LA, Haunted Graffiti began a lengthy process of writing and recording. Mature Themes is a self~produced affair, with former member Cole MGN drafted in to provide some drum programming and additional mixing duties. Far removed from Ariel’s early bedroom recordings, Mature Themes is a product of a more collaborative process, with the often~overlooked virtuoso musicianship of the band bought to the fore. “There are definitely not any links to my lo~fi origins”, Ariel recently told Spin magazine. “It’s so diverse but so different from anything I've done before. In a sense, it’s really the record I wanted to make back when I made Before Today, but couldn’t. We had time to let our hair down and try new things.”
≈ While the creative process was new, familiar Ariel Pink signatures remain. In fact, Mature Themes feels like the definitive Haunted Graffiti record, a patchwork of modern America, its esoteric reference points and moments of lyrical lucidity a twilight excursion through backwater LA and late~night TV channel hopping.