Ariel PinkBest Ariel Pink Albums Ranked

Pom Pom

fantano

9.0

“Pop's biggest oddball comes through with his strongest set of songs since the 00s.”

Pom Pom

pitchfork

8.8

“A decade ago, Ariel Pink crept out of his rented room in an ashram off Crenshaw with reels of spindly, self-destructing love songs. On his new album, the CalArts alumnus remains the stylistic next-of-kin to Frank Zappa: satirical, divisive, and more interested in terraforming genres than neatly deconstructing them.”

Dedicated to Bobby Jameson

pitchfork

8.2

“Refining the gonzo pop-collages of his previous work, Ariel Pink crafts an immersive, intimate record marked by solitude.”

Dedicated to Bobby Jameson

fantano

8.0

“The retrospective Dedicated to Bobby Jameson finds Ariel Pink going back to his old musical stomping grounds and crafting some of his best songs yet.”

Dedicated to Bobby Jameson

loudandquiet

8.0

“Ariel Pink has no time for genre constraints. As has become customary with his manic brand of outsider pop, his new album (itself an ode to Bobby Jameson – a cult ’60s singer who fell through the cracks of the ’70s and was considered dead before he was) skips from ’80s 8-bit videogame soundscapes (‘Death Patrol’) through ghoulish David Bowie glam (‘Santa’s in the Closet’) and on into surf-pop reve”

Pom Pom

rollingstone

7.0

“Ariel Pink is one sleazy unicorn. "I'm a sexual athlete," the Los Angeles bedroom-pop trickster boasts on his latest bong-swirl odyssey. Pink's music manages to be at once glossy and murky, absurd and natural – pinging with ADD inventiveness from demented glam rock to lone-wolf disco to cartoon punk to zonked-out Sixties psych pop. Through it all, there's an undercurrent of the creepy vibe that ha”