Mistletone

Artwork by Ben Montero. Layout by Carl Breitkreuz.

ARIEL PINK TOUR DATES:

SAT JAN 24 – MELBOURNE: SUGAR MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL. Tickets on sale now.
SUN JAN 25 – BRISBANE: THE BRIGHTSIDE with The Clean, Dan Deacon, How To Dress Well + more. Early-bird passes for The Brightside’s 2015 Australia Day Eve party on sale now via Oztix.
TUE JAN 27 – SYDNEY: OXFORD ART FACTORY with special guest Nick Allbrook (Pond). Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.
THU JAN 29 – PERTH: THE BAKERY, NORTHBRIDGE with special guest Nick Allbrook (Pond). Tickets on sale now from The Bakery.

• “The go-to influence for a generation of young, obtuse music makers” – PITCHFORK

Mistletone, Fasterlouder, RTR-FM and FBi Radio present LA indie-pop auteur Ariel Pink, touring with his seven piece band of merry men this January, hot on the heels of his superb new offering pom pom (out Friday November 14 via Remote Control).

Across its 17 tracks and 69 minutes, pom pom is unfiltered Ariel Pink, 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 Kim Fowley (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”, Ariel expains, “it is by far the least “solo” record I have ever recorded.”

The announcement coincides with Ariel Pink’s new single “Black Ballerina”. which was made Best New Track by Pitchfork overnight; they called it “equal parts witty, strange, and catchy, just like all his best work”. Click here to read yesterday’s feature from the New Yorker.

check out Ariel Pink on the cover of US Arena Homme magazine: