Three Ariel Pink Videos

It seems like the genre changes every four bars. From rat pack crooning to jangly punk riffs to reggae break downs and back again. DIY lo-fi home recorded. The New Weird America?
The New Sincerity? (whatever). Avant-pop, progressive-pop, indie … like I said, whatever …
Ariel Pink (aka Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) has been churning out hundreds of home recorded shining crazy pop diamonds out of his home music factory in Los Angeles for over a decade now. Does such an idiosyncratic artist need to be labeled? I know that our brains tend to label everything in order to navigate through this level, but let’s just say he’s from a long tradition of
artists who don’t need the big daddy of a corporation to live a creative life, for whatever base or divine reason. If there is a name for that, email me.

Here’s three delightfully warped music videos. Enjoy.

Somewhere in Paris/Hot Pink. Directed by Giddle Partridge and Dan Kapelovitz. Edited by Bear and Dan Kapelovitz.

Kate I Wait. Directed by Nicolas Amato.

Gopacalpulco. Directed by ?

Links: official site, Wikipedia, MySpace, Paw Tracks.