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Ariel Pink’s The Doldrums — another anthology of anachronistic nostalgia pop down sampled to AM radio quality — was released nearly 24 years ago. It is surpris
by gorgoiler 3y ago
Ariel Pink’s The Doldrums — another anthology of anachronistic nostalgia pop down sampled to AM radio quality — was released nearly 24 years ago. It is surprising to not see his work mentioned but maybe I’m not looking hard enough, or his cancellation has been too thorough?
- whstl 3y agoTrue. There's a revival of this kind of music/asthetic that happens every 10 or so years, people keep rediscovering it. Which is fine. But you can't mention this if you want to make it sound fresh. Either way, the lede here is the web 1.0 website and not the music per se, despite the article's title.
- rotw 3y agoCindy Lee isn't a retro revivalist IMO, their previous band Women already had that technique of using 1940s-60s songwriting form and warping it with a noisy, no-wave, DIY sensibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=673IaJZko9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=673IaJZko9I Part of that sound was Chad VanGaalen producing Women's two albums, and he went on to produce Alvvays' debut album in a similar DIY, tape-saturated style. Women's other successor act, Preoccupations, pretty clearly shows the post-punk/noise-rock side of Women, so it's kind of interesting to see how the descendants have grown their own roots a decade after the band ended. Anyway my hot take is that Cindy Lee uses past conventions in an inside-out sort of way as a means to an end, rather than producing a retro-sounding surface as the end goal like Ariel Pink. It's not a style, it's an instrument.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoAriel Pink is completely done as far as music journalism is concerned. After that tucker interview you wont hear about him again from critics I think