We were introduced to Ariel Pink on holiday last week. Sounding like they were taking inspiration from Brian Wilson surf music, 80s cock-rock and 70s prog and lo-fi folk.
New album is called Before Today and is fantastic, but you should also download the Greatest Hits. Not a bad place to start when trying to learn about a band that has released 100s of songs over the last 10 years, but you’d never before heard of.
The cheap Italo synths and scatterbrained guitar lines are still there, but added into the mix are Miami Vice saxes, floral hippy meanderings, bump’n'grind basslines; an orgy of all the most sensual and decadent parts of the 70s and 80s. Special mentions must go to soft-rock cop show theme Beverly Kills, in which you suspect Tom Selleck might start intoning over the middle eight. The single Round and Round mooches about, piecing fragments of melody together before suddenly joining them up in a chorus for the Age of Aquarius.
It’s new music day at TheScrapBook clearly.
