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Ariel Pink - "Picture Me Gone"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS87mPfD_yI&feature=youtu.be Ariel Pink has just shared a fittingly chilling and tragic video for "Picture Me Gone," taken from his upcoming "solo debut" pom pom. The track might just be Ariel's most mature and moving track yet, expressing with commendable candor the anxiety and pressure that the prospect of starting a family makes him feel. The song's also one of his most frightening, dwelling on the matters of our ultimately ephemeral existences and our fading senses of sentimentality in the modern world. But none of that's anywhere near as disquieting as the latex Ariel mask that appears throughout the video...

pom pom is out November 18 via 4AD. If you're still an Ariel Pink skeptic, he also did a powerful rendition of "Picture Me Gone" recently with the PS22 Chorus that you might wanna check out. Find it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqQ_vR5qGpk

Ariel Pink - "Put Your Number In My Phone"

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Lo-fi pop fans unite: There's a new Ariel Pink album on the way. HOORAY!

Yes, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Ariel Pink is gearing up for another album release this November via 4AD. The title of this forthcoming album is pom pom, and this debut single from it has been paired with the oddity of a music video embedded above.

"Put Your Number In My Phone," is a catchy, blissful, and poetic love song where the protagonist desires a love interest's phone number in his mobile device. Vocally, Pink is his typically shy self, and there's even a cheesy phone recording that isn't to unlike the one here.

Being this is a love song, it's only fitting that the music video is loaded with awkward romantic rejections, which are experienced by Pink and his wheelchair-bound friend as they cruise the mall looking for fun and love. Need I also mention that Pink looks like a late 90s mall goth who just picked up a copy of Kid Rock's Devil Without A Cause? Yes, yes, I need say that.

Look for pom pom on November 17th.

Jorge Elbrose (Jorge Elbrecht & Ariel Pink) - "Called to Ring"

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We've been pretty stoked about this Jorge Elbrecht and Ariel Pink collaborative project ever since they dropped one of 2013's best singles, "Hang on to Life," last summer. You might recall the single later receiving a crazy, smokey music video that was equally great.

Well, second single "Called to Ring" has received the same treatment. The video features a strange camo-clad band playing along to the song in slow motion, occasionally being interrupted by the conjoined, mask-wearing faces of Pink and Elbrecht mouthing the lyrics. Like the previous one, it's a trip. Hopefully there's a full-length in the cards for Jorge Elbrose because this pair has proven to be just a machine at turning out obscenely catchy songs.