Los Angeless prodigal songwriting son Ariel Pink shares his eleventh studio album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson, September 15. The albums title makes a direct and heartfelt reference to a real-life L.A. musician, long presumed dead, who resurfaced online in 2007 after 35 reclusive years to pen his autobiography and tragic life story in a series of blogs and YouTube tirades. His book and life resonated with me to such a degree, Pink states, that I felt a need to dedicate my latest record to him. Dedicated to Bobby Jameson begins at the end and ends at the beginning. We follow the protagonist through a battery of tests and milestones, the first of which sees him reborn into life out of death, Pink explains, referencing the opening track Time To Meet Your God. From there, he seesaws his way between the innocent love and the rock-solid edifice of childhood-worn trauma that together constitute his lifelong initiation into the realm of artifice and theatrical disposability. Building upon his singular vision of pop songcraft, established by such seminal records as The Doldrums, Worn Copy, House Arrest, Loverboy, Before Today, Mature Themes, and pom pom, Pink revisits themes that have haunted his sonic cinemascapes since the late 1990s: mismanaged dreams, west coast mythologies, itinerant criminals, haunted boulevards, Hollywood legends, the impermanence of romance, bubblegum artifice, movie stardom, childhood terror, acceptance of self, and narcissism projected through a celluloid filter of controversion. Raised in Beverly Hills, Ariel Pink (born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) started out as a visual artist before becoming a recording artist in the late 90s while attending Cal Arts. Between 1996 and 2004, he honed his craft writing, performing, recording, and producing a body of work that was experimental, impressionistic, and improvisationaloften creating melodic accompaniments and percussive elements with his voice, as opposed to traditional drums or drum machines. In 2003, Pink attracted the attention of Animal Collectives Paw Tracks label, earning his home recordings a small and devoted fan base through a series of limited edition reissues. Drawing upon a list of long-forgotten iconoclasts and trailblazers like the Shaggs, the Cure, the Velvet Underground, Destroy All Monsters, the Godz, Cabaret Voltaire, and R. Stevie Moore, Pink set himself to the task of redefining the musical lexicon for himself and others. This mission, he says, remains mine to this day. Though critically misunderstood at the time, Pinks lo-fi recordings wielded an enormous influence with insiders and outsiders, earning him the unsolicited distinction as the godfather of chillwave and the face of the emergent genre of Hypnagogic Pop. Upon signing to the landmark record label 4AD in 2009, Pinks fortunes with critics began to reverse, and his resulting first single, Round and Round, was named the #1 Record of 2010 by Pitchfork. Since that period, Pinks influence

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• Format Detail: Deluxe LP Package: Black Vinyl, Non-Sequitur Segues Bonus Picture Disc 12", 24"x 36"; Folded Poste
• Genre: Pop
• Format: Vinyl
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Released: 9/15/2017