The latest single to be taken from Ariel Pink's 4AD album Before Today is the wonderful 'Fright Night (Nevermore)', backed with a whipsmart Dam-Funk remix and instrumental. The original is Pink at his most unashamedly radio-friendly, an eminently hummable synth-pop anthem that's agreeably washed out with being burdened by any serious distortion. Less meta-pop and more just...pop. We like. On the flip, fellow California-dweller Dam-Funk recasts the song in his inimitable boogie-funk mould, foregrounding those pastel synth shades and supporting them with a wheedling P-funk bassline and drums that begin at low-riding half-speed before accelerating to the motorik pace of the original. It's a tough but sensitive version,a kind of black simulacrum to the none-more-white original, and the handily supplied instrumental highlights its abundant musicality. It's the perfect summer record really, and you leave marvelling at how much common ground the hitherto worlds-apart-seeming Pink and Funk share.
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The latest single to be taken from Ariel Pink's 4AD album Before Today is the wonderful 'Fright Night (Nevermore)', backed with a whipsmart Dam-Funk remix and instrumental. The original is Pink at his most unashamedly radio-friendly, an eminently hummable synth-pop anthem that's agreeably washed out with being burdened by any serious distortion. Less meta-pop and more just...pop. We like. On the flip, fellow California-dweller Dam-Funk recasts the song in his inimitable boogie-funk mould, foregrounding those pastel synth shades and supporting them with a wheedling P-funk bassline and drums that begin at low-riding half-speed before accelerating to the motorik pace of the original. It's a tough but sensitive version,a kind of black simulacrum to the none-more-white original, and the handily supplied instrumental highlights its abundant musicality. It's the perfect summer record really, and you leave marvelling at how much common ground the hitherto worlds-apart-seeming Pink and Funk share.
The latest single to be taken from Ariel Pink's 4AD album Before Today is the wonderful 'Fright Night (Nevermore)', backed with a whipsmart Dam-Funk remix and instrumental. The original is Pink at his most unashamedly radio-friendly, an eminently hummable synth-pop anthem that's agreeably washed out with being burdened by any serious distortion. Less meta-pop and more just...pop. We like. On the flip, fellow California-dweller Dam-Funk recasts the song in his inimitable boogie-funk mould, foregrounding those pastel synth shades and supporting them with a wheedling P-funk bassline and drums that begin at low-riding half-speed before accelerating to the motorik pace of the original. It's a tough but sensitive version,a kind of black simulacrum to the none-more-white original, and the handily supplied instrumental highlights its abundant musicality. It's the perfect summer record really, and you leave marvelling at how much common ground the hitherto worlds-apart-seeming Pink and Funk share.
The latest single to be taken from Ariel Pink's 4AD album Before Today is the wonderful 'Fright Night (Nevermore)', backed with a whipsmart Dam-Funk remix and instrumental. The original is Pink at his most unashamedly radio-friendly, an eminently hummable synth-pop anthem that's agreeably washed out with being burdened by any serious distortion. Less meta-pop and more just...pop. We like. On the flip, fellow California-dweller Dam-Funk recasts the song in his inimitable boogie-funk mould, foregrounding those pastel synth shades and supporting them with a wheedling P-funk bassline and drums that begin at low-riding half-speed before accelerating to the motorik pace of the original. It's a tough but sensitive version,a kind of black simulacrum to the none-more-white original, and the handily supplied instrumental highlights its abundant musicality. It's the perfect summer record really, and you leave marvelling at how much common ground the hitherto worlds-apart-seeming Pink and Funk share.