Lookout, North America: Ariel Pink is hitting the road. It's about to get hypnagogic up in here!
Andrew W.K. has evidently found a product he believes in.
Ariel Pink is out there. Like a reach-for-the-thesaurus-to-describe-adequately status of strange: quirky, idiosyncratic, madcap -- those might do. The Los Angeles-based singer has churned out a stream of basement-tape consciousness -- as in hundreds of cassette tapes -- before catching the ear of Animal Collective. As his first album for 4AD arrived in 2010, ‘Before Today,’ the lo-fi was traded in for hi(er)-fi production, and the lone artist found a band, expanding into Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. ‘Mature Themes’ is their second effort, and it is as every bit as outlandish as Pink’s previous work.
Drummer Aaron Sperske says that even though his bandmates in Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti ousted him in May, he's still entitled to 25% of their earnings. To collect his alleged share of the band's profits, Sperske has filed a lawsuit against the rest of the band for $1 million.
Since breaking through into the mainstream with their last release, the critically-acclaimed 'Before Today,' Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are set to release their followup album, 'Mature Themes,' on Aug. 21.
