Artist	Song
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Round and Round
from Before Today (2010)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Can't Hear My Eyes
from Before Today (2010)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	I Don't Need Enemies (Holy Sh*t! Single 45)
from Lover Boy (2006)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	She's My Girl
from Lover Boy (2006)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Mistaken Wedding
from Round and Round - Single (2010)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Bright Lit Blue Skies
from Before Today (2010)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Revolution's a Lie
from Before Today (2010)

Comment:

Ariel Pink is so gloriously eccentric that we tend to categorise him using the scene labels with which he's associated — freak folk, New Weird America, chillwave — but it's generally best to view these pigeon-holes as portals into his strange and intriguing pop-rockin' world, rather than as destinations in themselves. Raised and schooled in the surreal environs of suburban Beverly Hills, young Ariel Marcus Rosenberg developed strong word-of-mouth over a series of lo-fi home-recorded albums (tagged the Haunted Graffiti series, a moniker also used for his band) during the first decade of the 21st Century: early highlights include the dazed and cleverly confused "Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups" and the spectral, dissonant "Strange Fires", both from [i]The Doldrums[/i]. A move out of the bedroom and into the studio came with his late-2009 signing to 4AD, on which label 2010's excellent [i]Before Today[/i] was released.

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