Bleep

Press Release

Odditties Sodomies Vol. 3 is a new installment of Ariel Pink’s compilation series collecting revelatory unreleased material recorded during Ariel’s prolific series of releases as Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, focusing on the years 1997–2004. Released as a concluding entry of Ariel Archives, Odditties Sodomies Vol. 3 delivers more gems from the artist’s treasure chest of unheard or narrowly distributed music. Like the other releases in Ariel Archives, Odditties Sodomies Vol. 3 has been carefully transferred from the original source tapes and mixed in true stereo, restoring the full stereophonic experience Ariel originally designed. His predecessors in this multitalented pop category are pantheon: Prince, Todd Rundgren, and Kate Bush. Pink unites disparate sides of the pop spectrum and crafts a complicated musical persona. It’s part self-parody but also earnest ambition, a quest to reinvent the self through musical knowledge and musical creation.