Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti has got to be one of the stranger albums I've listened to recently, and given that it's released by Paw Tracks (Animal Collective's label), I'm not surprised. It reminds a little of early 4-track era Ween, although the recording quality is even poorer. This album sounds like the sort of thing you would hear drifting from a small slightly broken radio sitting on the windowsill of an apartment complex in the mid-70's, the mellow folk rock of some long forgotten singer drifting through the heat of a mid-summer day.
This is one that would probably lose me all kinds of Indie cred if I actually cared about that sort of thin. Eisley's Combinations though provides an incredible song reminicent of something that wouldn't entirely be out of place on a newer Sleater Kinney album called "A Sight To Behold." It has a very driving beat with great harmonies. Actually, the harmonies on this album are what really grabs me about it. Eisley has two distinct female vocalists that have managed to gel their voices in such a way as to create great harmonies, best displayed on the aforementioned "A Sight To Behold" and the two closers, the title track and "If You Are Wondering." I also enjoyed "Many Funerals" as another driving rocker.
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