{"id":58975,"date":"2012-08-14T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=58975"},"modified":"2012-08-15T19:39:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:39:36","slug":"skivrecension-ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti-mature-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=58975","title":{"rendered":"Skivrecension: Ariel Pink&#8217;s Haunted Graffiti &#8211; Mature Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Artist: Ariel Pink&#8217;s Haunted Graffiti<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Titel: Mature Themes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Betyg: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Med sina genre\u00f6verstigande hopp och Ariel Pinks k\u00e4nsla f\u00f6r retro \u00e4r <em>Mature Themes<\/em> en trevlig bekantskap &#8211; om \u00e4n inte fullt s\u00e5 bra som f\u00f6reg\u00e5ngaren <em>Before Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mature Themes<\/em>, Beverly Hills-sonen Ariel Rosenbergs (som han egentligen heter) nionde full\u00e4ngdare, \u00e4r lika mycket ett album som en mosaik av id\u00e9er. Vissa briljanta, vissa bisarra. En l\u00e5t heter till exempel <em>Schnitzel Boogie<\/em> och \u00e4r precis lika underlig som titeln f\u00f6resl\u00e5r.<\/p>\n<p>I och med <em>Before Today<\/em> som enligt mig tillh\u00f6rde 2010 \u00e5rs tio b\u00e4sta album l\u00e4mnade Ariel Pink &#8211; \u00e5tminstone till viss del &#8211; lo-fi-tr\u00e4sket bakom sig. Till skillnad fr\u00e5n hans tidigare album som spelades in p\u00e5 s\u00e4ngkammaren i Los Angeles fick den n\u00e4mligen en fullfj\u00e4drad studioproduktion. Det var \u00e4ven den f\u00f6rsta skivan som sl\u00e4pptes under namnet Ariel Pink&#8217;s Haunted Graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e5 <em>Mature Themes<\/em> tas produktionen liksom id\u00e9erna ett steg l\u00e4ngre. I en intervju med <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/gallery\/ariel-pinks-retro-licious-lp-inside-haunted-graffitis-sessions\">Spin<\/a> ber\u00e4ttade Ariel Pink att det h\u00e4r var skivan han ville, men inte kunde, g\u00f6ra n\u00e4r de arbetade med <em>Before Today<\/em>. Titelsp\u00e5ret <em>Mature Themes<\/em> kretsar enbart kring tre verser och en synthslinga men tillh\u00f6r \u00e4nd\u00e5 det mest l\u00e4ttsm\u00e4lta den egensinnige Beverly Hills-bon n\u00e5gonsin gjort medan efterf\u00f6ljande\u00a0<em>Only in My Dreams<\/em>, som osar The Byrds och 60-tal, \u00e4r det n\u00e4rmaste han kommit en hit. <em>Driftwood<\/em>\u00a0(till viss del) och <em>Early Birds of Babylon<\/em> (framf\u00f6r allt) med sina pulserande basg\u00e5ngar f\u00f6r tankarna till post punken och tidiga The Cure medan <em>Pink Slime<\/em> \u00e4r lika medryckande som en gammal TV-jingel och \u00a0<em>Nostradamus &amp; Me<\/em> \u00e4r ett psykedeliskt skimmer med r\u00f6tter i 90-talets ambientmusik.\u00a0Avslutningen med en soulst\u00e4nkt cover p\u00e5 Donnie &amp; Joe Emersons 70-talshit\u00a0<em>Baby<\/em> tillh\u00f6r skivans starkaste \u00f6gonblick.<\/p>\n<p>Liksom beatnik-f\u00f6rfattaren William S. Burroughs verk \u00e4r <em>Mature Themes<\/em> som ett kollage av mer eller mindre sammanh\u00e4ngande komponenter. Ibland \u00e4r det absurt. Vissa textrader kan rent av vara r\u00e4tt groteska. Men p\u00e5 fr\u00e5gan huruvida Ariel Pink \u00e4r ett geni eller en idiot lutar svaret efter att ha lyssnat igenom\u00a0<em>Mature Themes<\/em>\u00a0ett antal g\u00e5nger \u00e5t det f\u00f6rstn\u00e4mnda.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4sta sp\u00e5r: Mature Themes, Only in My Dreams och Baby<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zIcSLsOc5ZQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Ariel Pink&#8217;s Haunted Graffiti Titel: Mature Themes Betyg: 4 Med sina genre\u00f6verstigande hopp och Ariel Pinks k\u00e4nsla f\u00f6r retro \u00e4r Mature Themes en trevlig bekantskap &#8211; om \u00e4n inte fullt s\u00e5 bra som f\u00f6reg\u00e5ngaren Before Today. Mature Themes, Beverly Hills-sonen Ariel Rosenbergs (som han egentligen heter) nionde full\u00e4ngdare, \u00e4r lika mycket ett album som [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[398,400,8176],"class_list":["post-58975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-musik","category-skivor","tag-ariel-pink","tag-ariel-pinks-haunted-graffiti","tag-mature-themes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58975"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58990,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58975\/revisions\/58990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}