Blog: PopMatters

Mature Themes isn't really a follow-up to Ariel Pink's 2010 breakthrough Before Today per se ; rather, it actually feels like a prequel, with some songs covered up with a healthy layer of gauze. I mean this in the nicest possible way when I say that Ariel Marcus Rosenberg, also known as Ariel Pink, is one weird cat. Or his brand of avant-bizarre pop music makes him seem that way. Last year, when his early independently-released solo albums Worn Copy, The Doldrums and House Arrest re-emerged in record stores on vinyl, I scored copies of [...]