Will Schube’s high school football team hired E-40 as their new offensive coordinator Ariel Pink has always been an artist rife with tensions, and pom pom, his latest work, stands both as an image of, and in direct opposition to, his persona. pom pom is Pink’s most nuanced, carefully crafted, cohesive, and layered record to […]

Peter Holslin relaxes to hardcore avant-garde improv jazz. Ariel Pink’s recent interview with The New Yorker reads like a master’s thesis in the art of trolling. In the span of just over 800 words, he manages to joke about suicide; compare Twitter controversies with the Rwandan genocide; proclaim love for pedophiles and necrophiliacs; diss his […]

Will Schube got something for the honies For all his oddities, Ariel Pink has settled into a consistently straightforward aesthetic over the course of his last three releases (and, not coincidentally, these are by far the best albums he’s ever made…it’s not even close, really). Bordering the periphery of silky smooth 70s AM radio and […]