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(Now Playing) Haunted Grafitti

Jul 30, 2009

Ariel Pink used to tour by himself playing songs he never intended for a commercial audience. And by all accounts, his shows were awful. At some shows, he would roll around half-naked on stage mumbling atonally into a microphone, backed only by a CD player – or maybe an iPod, I don’t know. Apparently sick of his audience’s relentless, boo-filled contempt, he teamed up with a backing band, Haunted Graffiti, and started trying to actually please his audience. Now, after touring a while with a consistent lineup, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti live show does a pretty good job translating the warbly, anachronistic cassette releases that made Ariel Pink worthy listening into scalable, instrumented songs.

  • dogma

    4 months ago

    yeah, but that usually works.

  • balletminx

    4 months ago

    i love them so much, i want to be them.

  • weetruffle

    4 months ago

    whatever its all about being as obscure and annoying as possible.

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