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Ariel Rosenberg's Thrash and Burn: Pre
Rock · 2006 · 36 tracks · 1h 33m

Ariel Rosenberg's Thrash and Burn: Pre

Ariel Pink

Abrasive industrial textures and mouth-drum percussion recorded to warped cassette tape. A raw, non-linear descent into the noisy origins of a lo-fi icon.

2006 · Human Ear Music

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Ariel Rosenberg's Thrash and Burn: Pre is a jagged, uncompromising look into the formative years of Ariel Pink. Unlike the hazy, AM-radio nostalgia of his later work, this collection is characterized by a violent, industrial energy. It sounds like a cassette tape that has been left on a radiator and then played through a blown-out speaker. It is the sound of a young artist testing the absolute limits of 8-track home recording, turning his own voice into a drum kit and his guitar into a source of rhythmic static. This is not the polished indie-pop of his later career; it is a raw, uninhibited transmission from a private sonic laboratory.

Tracklist · 36 Tracks · 1h 33m
01
Shoes
3:59
01
White Rain In The Windy Summer (Reprise)
1:55
02
On The Beach
2:55
02
Foul Play
2:38
03
The Andalusian
2:43
03
Pleasure Spot 1 (Sweet Jane Rock N Roll)
1:51
04
Innagecko
1:24
04
Half Girls Half Boys
1:50
05
I Disguise You
2:04
05
Cry Yourself To Sleep (12 Minute Overture)
12:45
06
Rite Mae Brown
2:00
06
Cemetary Suite
5:19
07
Starry Eyes
2:07
07
50 Cents
1:24
08
Those Were The Days (Now I'm 21)
3:13
08
Cuz You're Dead (Lester Bangs)
2:21
09
Dawn (Trash)
3:01
09
Disco Mia Aka Bust A Move
3:22
10
Pleasure Spot 3 (See You Are)
1:56
10
Nothing At All / Different Names
3:08
11
Rainy Den
8:39
11
Memorial
1:12
12
Red Room
2:03
12
Brother Sister
1:24
13
Funeral
1:01
13
Pleasure Spot 2 (Lucinda Cunt)
1:29
14
Leggos
1:34
14
Equus
1:37
15
Double Jeopardy
1:34
15
You Die Slowly And Then You Die
0:29
16
Red Vinyl
2:17
16
Kamikaze
0:58
17
Feel It With Your Landlord
1:35
17
I Won't See You Again
1:30
18
White Rain In The Windy Summer
2:44
18
Life Long
1:45
Moments Worth Listening For
The rhythmic chugging of vocal-simulated machinery that opens the album, setting a tone of mechanical claustrophobia.
The way the tape speed fluctuates during a guitar solo, creating a nauseating pitch-bend effect that feels like the medium is melting.
A moment of unexpected, fragile beauty where a clean keyboard line emerges from minutes of rhythmic static and distorted grunting.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Ariel Rosenberg's Thrash and Burn: Pre sound next to the rest of Ariel Pink's catalogue?

Percussion+2.8σ

The instrumentation foregrounds percussion far more than the catalogue usually does.

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