Ariel Pink

Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ariel Pink's music is equally poignant and outlandish, and as well-versed in the catchiest pop from the '60s, '70s, and '80s as avant-garde and outsider music. Recorded on an eight-track recorder that gave his music a murkily otherworldly quality, his initial albums as Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti spanned the post-punk and Krautrock hybrids of 1999's Underground, the hazy quarter-life crisis meditations of 2000's The Doldrums, and the relatively light-hearted but just as mercurial territory of 2002's Lover Boy. When Animal Collectiv...