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Ariel Pink

Pom Pom

Across its 17 tracks and 69 minutes, pom pom is unfiltered Ariel, a pied piper of the absurd, with infectious tales of romance, murder, frog princes and Jell-O. The record sees the Los Angeles native strike it out alone, returning to the solo moniker he has adopted for well over a decade when cementing his name as a king of pop perversion.

From demented kiddie tune collaborations with the legendary KimFowley (songs like ‘Jell-O’ and ‘Plastic Raincoats In The Pig Parade’ were written with Fowley in his hospital room during his recent battle with cancer), to beatific, windswept pop (‘Put Your Number In My Phone’, ‘Dayzed Inn Daydreams’), scuzz-punk face-melters (‘Goth Bomb’, ‘Negativ Ed’), and carnival dub psychedelia (‘Dinosaur Carebears’), pom pom could very well be Ariel Pink’s magnum opus.

“Although this is the first “solo” record credited to my name, it is by far the least “solo” record I have ever recorded.”
– Ariel Pink.

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 Go-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