Pom Pom

ben

rollingstone

pitchfork

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.

fantano

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