Woebot
Well-known member
Been listening to Haunted Graffiti almost solidly the past three days. This is a really special record.
Critics seem mainly confounded by it:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1712
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/pink_ariel/doldrums.shtml
(neither which are particularly illuminating)
this interview is excellent though:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/interviews/ariel_pink.htm
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My take initially was that this was a brilliant idea: a low-fi Moraor (thats my latest coinage BTW, middle of the road adult oriented rock TM) Cos of course Low-fi Moraor is a contradiction in terms, a radical formal heresy. Moraor has to be ultra-slick and sheeny.
When I read the interview I realised (congratulating myself) what a thoroughly great idea of mine it was because of course Ariel Pink proclaims he's trying to put Beverly Hills on the map. He's trying to make a folk music from the gutter at the centre of the media universe (Hollywood innit).
I like the (mine again) idea that if Bonnie Tyler and Meatloaf were left to their own devices, and they too were scuffling around the malls and back-alleys of Beverley Hills (presuming that they were in fact natives there), that their home-made demos would sound like this.
Critics seem mainly confounded by it:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1712
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/pink_ariel/doldrums.shtml
(neither which are particularly illuminating)
this interview is excellent though:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/interviews/ariel_pink.htm
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My take initially was that this was a brilliant idea: a low-fi Moraor (thats my latest coinage BTW, middle of the road adult oriented rock TM) Cos of course Low-fi Moraor is a contradiction in terms, a radical formal heresy. Moraor has to be ultra-slick and sheeny.
When I read the interview I realised (congratulating myself) what a thoroughly great idea of mine it was because of course Ariel Pink proclaims he's trying to put Beverly Hills on the map. He's trying to make a folk music from the gutter at the centre of the media universe (Hollywood innit).
I like the (mine again) idea that if Bonnie Tyler and Meatloaf were left to their own devices, and they too were scuffling around the malls and back-alleys of Beverley Hills (presuming that they were in fact natives there), that their home-made demos would sound like this.