It’s impossible to overstate the influence that Ariel Pink’s earliest records have had. When the Los Angeles native debuted in the early 2000s with albums on Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks, he quickly garnered a cult following, inadvertently putting his mark on the fringes of avant-pop and indie rock for the next decade and beyond.
But here’s the thing about those influential early albums like Loverboy and House Arrest: they weren’t quite right. Reissues of prior self-releases, the Paw Tracks albums were plagued by incorrect mixing, forgotten songs, and loss of quality.
Now, Mexican Summer’s Ariel Archives project is putting things right, reissuing many of Pink’s most iconic and beloved Haunted Graffiti records with new mixes and masters
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