Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
by Ariel Pink
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 September 2017
- Label: Mexican Summer
- Country: United States
- Length: 49:34
- Community rating: 3.52/5 from 11 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Dedicated to Bobby Jameson' is a tribute to the late 1960s musician Bobby Jameson, exploring themes of artistic struggle and rebirth through a contemporary take on a classic sound. The album's home-recorded, lo-fi production harkens back to Ariel Pink's earliest bedroom recordings, blending murky, psychedelic textures with some of his most direct and melodic pop songwriting. This results in a varied collection that fuses accessible dream-pop, such as on the song "Feels Like Heaven," with more dense and experimental arrangements that incorporate elements of funk, punk, and synth-pop.
Genres
Descriptors: lo-fi, effects-laden, warped, retro, pastiche, melodic, guitars, eccentric
Tracklist
- Time to Meet Your God (2:40)
- Feels Like Heaven (3:16)
- Death Patrol (3:20)
- Santa's in the Closet (3:01)
- Dedicated to Bobby Jameson (3:50)
- Time to Live (5:43)
- Another Weekend (4:14)
- I Wanna Be Young (2:36)
- Bubblegum Dreams (3:12)
- Dreamdate Narcissist (2:28)
- Kitchen Witch (3:38)
- Do Yourself a Favor (3:40)
- Acting (4:31)
- Revenge of the Iceman (3:25)
Credits
- Ariel Pink - art direction, design, mixing, producer, Primary Artist
- Juliette Amoroso - engineer
- Robert Beatty - art direction, design
- Patrik Berger - mixing
- Charlotte Ercoli Coe - photography
- Jillian Alexander - cover photography
- Dave Cooley - mastering
- Kenny Gilmore - engineer, mixing
- Alle Norton - engineer
- Dam-Funk - Featuring