/Synthwave, Dreamwave, Sea punk, Newbreed, Witch house, Drag house, Vaporwave, Leftfield pop/
Comment: this handful of pieces would have been
a great pop issue if the world were a more affective and smarter place. Indeed,
all the elements represented over there are masterfully balanced within it –
from spooky yet dreamy synthesised hovers with additional of voice-based codas and
hyper-realistic ambient and found sound mixed sonic plateaus to unexpectedly
entering sinister noise torrents and even post-punk-esque bass thumping (Slept Together). By listening to it for
many times in a row the listener can actually perceive the impact of an early
Ariel Pink on further development of innovative pop music – by the New Weird
movement and neo-psychedelic approach to dream-soaked indie pop/chillwave and witch/drag
house and vaporwave music. Ariel Pink demonstrated that the kind of geek music
could sound in a very ctachy (poppy?) way in fact. Although the Tambov, Russia-based artist
provides idiosyncratic detours and threads the pre-eminent value of the issue
surfaces with regard to its organic feel and effortlessness. Indeed, the easiness
is densely mixed up with murkiness that someone might think of that as something
of house music for Satan worshippers