If Soul music collided with chill-wave, would it work? Would it sound horrendous or would it just be the most stunning and relaxing thing you’ve ever exposed your ears too? Well, I’ve found something that combines the two and it works. You’re obviously free to make your own mind up, but trust me- if you combine the two it goes extremely well together.

Ariel Pink (aka Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti) isn’t really chill-wave to be honest. His sound is part psychedelic, part dream-pop with a hint of folk. It’s chilled out music at its best. I know that summer has been and gone. Well let’s be honest, did it ever really arrive? It depends where you live. In England, as ever, it passed us all by. There was this weekend in July though….

Anyway, I’m not a weather reporter. I’m just some fool who adores who music, so I’ll carry on with that.

Last year’s release, Before Today was so underrated. I know a lot of spectacular albums came out last year. Yes, I am going to mention it- Warpaint’s album was THE album of last year. Thing is, there is a link with Warpaint, well Emily Kokal and Ariel Pink.

This afternoon I was looking for a Warpaint interview, and I found an interview Emily did with Ariel. I’m not jus saying this because I absolutely love Warpaint with all I have, but it was truly one of the best interviews I have ever read. I think to have been in the same room as Emily and Ariel as the interview was being conducted, it just would’ve been a glorious experience. It went beyond music; it was just a brilliant read.

Before Today is such a floaty kind of album. It makes you feel weightless and that nothing matters- just like Warpaint’s album. It must be that beautiful LA feel, right?

It’s just the perfect summer sound, and I suppose with the dark evenings looming in- a sound like this is needed more than ever.

Can’t Feel My Eyes is my favourite off the album. I’m guilty of not giving this album the attention that it well and truly deserves. I think it’s because I was so into a certain band’s album that came out in October I just ignored everything (see, didn’t mention their name this time!) But it is a wonderful piece of art.

It’s an album to sit and watch the wave’s crash to, maybe hug someone whilst sitting on the beach. Or just sit on your own with your thoughts- either option works.

I know I say it a lot, but I firmly believe that music is about escapism. If a piece of music can get you to escape reality and place you in a different frame of mind, and to even put you in a better place- then you’re onto something truly remarkable. I listen to a lot of music that makes me feel this way, it’s sometimes an issue when I’m listening to a piece of music and I’m about to cross a road- I look both ways, but I take nothing but the music in. I guess I am well and truly obsessed with music. There are worse things I could care this much about.

Ariel Pink makes you feel so fucking alive. I’m not sorry for swearing, but it’s needed for once. It just does something to your soul. His voice and sound are euphorically soulful. That’s the only way to describe it. I’d love it if he collaborated with Adam Green, it’d be the strangest sound EVER. It’d work though. I’ve never done drugs, nor do I want to- but if they did a song together I imagine it’d feel like some spacey acid trip? Who knows?

Ariel Pink posses a sound that I’ve not heard before yet at the same time has that LA vibe to it. So many may dismiss it and wish to part themselves from it. I fully understand. However with Ariel Pink, you hope he doesn’t leave it behind because he’s taken a familiar sound and made it his own. There’s not many that can do that and do it well. He’s a true artist, in ever sense of the word.