ariel pink’s haunted graffiti – can’t hear my eyes

i found another label i took in subscription. after fashionable idiots and no way records please welcome captured tracks. not only they gave me the great dum dum girls from earlier on, you should check out blessure grave’s 12”, too. as joy division as interpol wanted to be but didn’t dare to. the label seems to focus on new wave bands with a little twist. yes, the glorious 80s are omnipresent but on a lo-fi level. i love it when i can rely on the good taste of a small label.
and best known might be the blank dogs whose mastermind mike sniper actually runs the label.

ariel pink’s haunted graffiti do their lo-fi in a totally different, kind of over the top mode. i can’t really listen to most of their songs. i bet no one really can but a lot of people pretend to because they are kind of hip nowadays. anyway, just to prove that they don’t use all the pretentious lo-fi stuff to cover up their inability to write or play well the do some great tunes here and there. can’t hear my eyes is such an almost perfect pop song. lots of 70s psychedelic feeling here but still. i actually could listen to this song over and over again. which i’d have to since i only bought the 7” and the flipside is pretty boring.

ariel pink’s haunted graffiti myspace