Stream: Ariel Pink, ‘Feels Like Heaven’

Daiana Feuer on August 16th, 2017

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Love is in the air on the third single from Ariel Pink’s forthcoming album, “Dedicated to Bobby Jameson.” On “Feels Like Heaven,” Pink bares his romantic side. You can practically feel him spinning around on a cloud, smelling the wildflowers that sprout up through the sidewalk cracks, just really relishing that giddiness that comes with the prospect of new love.

“Dedicated To Bobby Jameson” arrives Sept. 15 on Mexican Summmer. The title and concept for the album was inspired by the story of a Los Angeles musician who resurfaced online in 2007 after 35 years in seclusion to share his tragic life story in a series of blogs and YouTube videos. Pink says, “His book and life resonated with me to such a degree that I felt a need to dedicate my latest record to him.”

The album works its way backwards, from the end of the story to the beginning. Pink explains: “We follow the protagonist through a battery of tests and milestones, the first of which sees him reborn into life out of death… From there, he seesaws his way between the innocent love and the rock-solid edifice of childhood-worn trauma that together constitute his lifelong initiation into the realm of artifice and theatrical disposability.”

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