Following his previous album, 2012’s Mature Themes, under the Haunted Graffiti alias, pom pom is Ariel Pink’s first solo record by his own moniker. Trailed with singles ‘Put Your Number In My Phone’, ‘Black Ballerina’, and ‘Picture Me Gone’, pom pom is unfiltered Ariel, spanning 17 tracks and 69 minutes.
The record veers from collaborations with the legendary Kim Fowley (songs such as ‘Jell-O’ and ‘Plastic Raincoats In The Pig Parade’ were written with Fowley in his hospital room during his recent battle with cancer), to beatific, windswept pop (‘Put Your Number In My Phone’, ‘Dayzed Inn Daydreams’), scuzz-punk face-melters (‘Goth Bomb’, ‘Negativ Ed’), and carnival dub psychedelia (‘Dinosaur Carebears’).
