Wanted/Needed/Loved: Weyes Blood’s Mysterious Kris
To this day no one really knows where my kris came from or whether or not it’s a significant part of my family history, if it’s a random object or an heirloom with an untold story.
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Posts Tagged: Ariel Pink
This Week in Posivibes: Drugdealer
Michael Collins’s latest project has an enviable list of collaborators, including Weyes Blood, Ariel Pink, Mild High Club, Sheer Agony, and members of Mac DeMarco’s band. While some reviews seem preoccupied with the tongue-in-cheek names Collins gives to each of his projects, it seems to us that the more important thing to notice is that these songs are pleasingly jammy, […]
...moreThis Week in Posivibes: Sheer Mag
Philadelphia’s Sheer Mag has received posivibes for the series of EPs it has released, beginning with Still Single’s praise for Sheer Mag I. The third EP, logically titled III, is still walking the power-pop/pop-metal line that Still Single observed, earning comparisons to Thin Lizzy, Royal Headache, Shannon and the Clams, and Ariel Pink, according to Raven Sings the Blues. Listen and support […]
...moreThis Week in Posivibes: Seth Bogart
The Hunx & His Punx frontman released his self-titled solo debut via Burger Records last Friday, and it’s excellent. Featuring Kathleen Hanna, Tavi Gevinson, Cherry Glazerr, and Chela, the album is heavier on the synths than Bogart’s other projects and is produced by Cole MGN (Ariel Pink, Julia Holter). Pitchfork calls the album “queasy, vaguely illicit, and beautiful on the […]
...moreNew from Ariel Pink for Heaven Knows What
Ariel Pink has released a new song, titled “I Need a Minute,” an eerily calming circular kind of track that does an uncannily great job of capturing the way it feels to view the world through a series of isolating plastic sheets and be warmly, comfortably disconcerted about it all. Pink wrote the track for […]
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