here's what some hipster douche wrote about this:
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To date, Ariel Pink has been hugely yet unintentionally influential on today's indie music. He received his first glimpse of attention when he was signed to Animal Collective's Paw Tracks in 2002 with House Arrest. Over the past year, Ariel had erratically gained a large proportion of my ear's attention with my first exposure to Pink's material, which was 2003's Worn Copy, which also blew my mind. After some light research, I found that Pink, although reputable, had been overlooked by critics as just another weird cassette-pop revivalist but few had yet to notice his reminiscent legacy on indie music until Washed Out's 'Feel It All Around' exploded onto the scene in mid-2009. Soon after, Neon Indian, Ducktails and Memory Cassette followed suit to this uprising genre that the Wire accurately described as 'hypnagogic pop' which has since been dubbed 'chillwave'. People assumed that Washed Out was the first to pioneer the genre but few can now deny that Pink got there over a decade earlier with his decayed and distorted bedroom pop that he recorded before recognition. That's when Ariel Pink struck me as being a very significant and rather wonderful musician. I loved those lo-fi armpit beats and whiney hooks as never could tape distortion be so prolific to an artist's music. He manipulated the copious cassette hissing into an instrument of its own.
Ironically, at around the same time as chillwave's establishment was Pink's move to 4AD records, where he promised an iminent and distortion-free record, which provoked hesitancy within myself...
