Objectively, what's his best album?

>>126979670 (OP)
house arrest or dedicated to bobby jameson

Scared Famous/ FF >>

Loverboy

>>126979670 (OP)
I'm a worn copy / doldrums kind of guy but all of his 2000s albums are great

>>126979855
Yeah, that's my favorite.

Objectively it's probably Pom Pom

>>126979670 (OP)
Doldrums

>>126979670 (OP)

House Arrest or Before Today

>>126980754
Doldrums is his only "official" album I dislike.

Probably The Doldrums
You cant get this back
https://youtu.be/S2s5kFYPBWA

>>126983079
out of all of his records i think the doldrums is the purest distillation of the ariel pink sound. the doldrums has this kind of intangible magic about it that separates itself from his other albums like it was a total fluke that so many different pieces could come together to form such a perfect record. i love records that create a unique universe that you can explore and escape from your mundane reality and for me the doldrums is very much one of those kind of records. give it another chance, i wasn't totally enthralled by it at first either but eventually it will win you over

>>126983408
The sound is there, it's the songwriting that's lacking compared to his other albums. Arriving to the end of the record is a struggle

The Doldrums is such a bummer I wish I never heard it but I guess that's what I get for being a fucked up mentally ill freak.

Anyway my pick is Loverboy/House Arrest.

Also
>objectively

Are Mature Themes and Underground his least liked albums?

PINK WIG THICK ASS GIVE EM WHIP LASH

>>126984658
>Mature Themes
Pom Pom basically overshadowed it.
>Underground
Suffered from a very bad tinny-sounding transfer for a long time until the remaster.

>>126984658
Mature Themes is great

The first one or whatever i dunno lol I liked good indie music from this time period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVQN5cyDBcg

Can't pick

>>126979670 (OP)
He sucks and has contributed nothing original to music

His music makes me feel like I'm being violated.

>>126979670 (OP)
What an ugly motherfucker.

LOOM LOOM

>>126979670 (OP)
Pom Pom has higher highs than Before Today or Bobby Jameson but also lower lows. Never really listened to the lofi stuff.

>>126986093
>Never really listened to the lo-fi stuff
You really should: https://youtu.be/68XcI7Qip5U?si=7FVuNGmwVcuWfI5W

>>126983408
I enjoyed your take. It's one my favorites too.

I'm going to say Mature Themes because it's properly "brown" but with the polish of his post-Before Today work. It's as enjoyable and funny and weird as his cassette work.

I've listened to the new single 50 times already

>>126984852
Turn on your monitor

>>126979855
Girl In A Tree is seriously one of the top 5 songs Ariel has written and nobody ever talks about it

>>126979855
>>126986653
Inmates of Heartache too

>>126979670 (OP)
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>>126985932
I never understood this forced meme even a decade ago

>>126987271
Beats Death Grips though, doesn't it? Maus is better... if you find Ariel to be an annoying meme listen to him - you'll prefer his "thing"

>>126979670 (OP)
Objectively he does not have a best album. He's too contrarian for that... so if you can't pick a favorite that's "the point"

>>126979670 (OP)
harvest moon

>>126987271
You don't see it?

>>126979670 (OP)
I like all of them, except I like Matur Themes and Pom Pom less than the rest.
Underground and Oddities 3 are both really great, but I think them hitting streaming coincided with him getting canceled so neither got very much attention.
Never Made a Demo is good, too. Has a better version of Menopause Man than Before Today.

>>126984737
this is pretty good
will he get uncancelled?

>>126979670 (OP)
Oddities Sodomies Vol 1 has some of his best stuff. House Arrest and Word Copy are probably his best actual albums but Doldrums is great, Scared Famous is ridiculously underrated, and Before Today Pom Pom and Dedicated To Bobby Jameson are really great mainstream indie pop records

>>126984737
I really hope the album comes out on streaming

The Doldrums is his best and most consistent. Not a bad song. Feels like anhedonia in audible form

>>126979670 (OP)
Either House Arrest or Worn Copy. There are probably a half dozen runner-ups though because he has a lot of great albums.

>>126991442
>anhedonia
Nailed it. This album is both comfy & dangerous when going through a break-up, a death in the family. I recall being so immersed into the world of The Doldrums that I played the CD for months trying to build up from scratch. It's probably the most consistent soundscape he's created, with each song teetering off into a further bleakness than the one before it, muddling more into thick muck. I'm just recalling here, haven't listened to this record in nearly a decade.

>>126979670 (OP)
Maus mogs him in every way.