- Zach Galifianakis: “If you don’t ask me a more interesting question than that, this interview is over.”
Ariel Pink’s 10th album, pom pom, further extends the eccentric enchantment of his LA-reared weirdo-pop and seedy psych rock. The orchestration is busy, but the action works within the tamped cassette fidelity. This is Ariel’s first full-length to be released without his band, Haunted Graffiti. Songs on the album such as “Sexual Athletics” and “Exile on Frog Street” were written for Ariel by the late Kim Fowley from his hospital bed. Azealia Banks appears singing backup on “Nude Beach a Go-Go,” while a separate version of the song was recorded for her album Broke with Expensive Taste. Ariel was unable to do this interview because he was in a plane on the way to Australia. So I pulled (many) strings and spoke to Hangover and Birdman star Zach Galifianakis by phone instead. I thought he was in the Florida Keys, but it turns out he was in an undisclosed location in the state of California…
