- Lo-fi
- Alternative pop
- DIY
- Psychedelic pop
- Post-pop
- Hypnagogic pop
- Singer-songwriter
- Avant-pop
- Art pop
- Noise pop
- Synth-pop
Comment: by the middle of October of 2018
there is a sufficient time span left behind to consider the most
important, seminal musicians during the last decades. By my opinion
the importance of Ariel Pink is impossible to overestimate. As one
Estonian musician and DJ said about it when he first heard him that
God started creating music. I can only agree with him. By listening
to his first albums from the end of the 90s to the middle of the 00s
it is something extraterrestrial even today for my ears. Many
projects got inspired by him and Sean Bowie`s T.E.A.M.S is an amazing
churning issue being obviously inspired by Ariel Pink. All those
glitterball and stroboscope reflected synths used to bump up in
syncopated way as if a faint remembrance from one`s subconscious mind
regarding personal pop experience. One would wake up either being
horrified and coated with frowsty sweat and exhausted with tremors or
being elevated to heaven via gentle surreal and hyperrealistic
sounds. From serene disco reverberations and cloudless artificial
ambiances to ragged noise pop explosions and frantic drumming and bold yet artsy guitar
lines as if an unstoppable liner at the sea. A true gem from the 10s,
much better than Ariel Pink`s last issues (unfortunately).
