Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (2012) [FLAC]

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (2012) [FLAC]

Released: 2012
Duration: 55:52
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Lo-Fi, Indie
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 850 kbps
Bits Per Sample: 16
Sample Rate: 44,100 Hz
Cover: Front

01 Kinski Assassin
02 Is This the Best Spot?
03 Mature Themes
04 Only in My Dreams
05 Driftwood
06 The Early Birds of Babylon
07 Schnitzel Boogie
08 Symphony of the Nymph
09 Pink Slime
10 Farewell, American Primitive
11 Live It Up
12 Nostradamus & Me
13 Baby
14 Love Everyone

To anyone familiar with his music, it's obvious that Ariel Pink is weird, but it bears repeating: Ariel Pink is really weird. It's also not a surprise that he's a (self-professed) "nympho" either, but he sheds more light on that throughout Mature Themes, which is both his most accomplished album and some of his most twistedly immature music. As on Before Today, the album's sound is just a shade clearer than what came before it, and his backing band Haunted Graffiti's tight musicianship provides the perfect foil for Pink's stream-of-consciousness sprawl. But while Mature Themes' conceptual glue makes it more cohesive than all of his previous work put together, glorious randomness abounds: not many artists would interrupt a song to order food at a drive-thru, as Pink does on the rhapsodic "Schnitzel Boogie," or write a song about being bros with a legendary seer, as he does on "Nostradamus and Me," one of his more ecstatically drifting pieces of chillwave.