Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

The following year, Pink signed to 4AD, which released the single "Round & Round" early in 2010. Before Today arrived that summer, revealing a more polished sound than any of Pink's previous work. In 2011, Pink released the 16-minute song "Witchhunt Suite for WWIII," which was previously featured on 2007's tour-only album YAS DuDette, as a single to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11. He also reteamed with R. Stevie Moore on the double album Ku Klux Glam, which appeared early in 2012. In August of that year, the third Haunted Graffiti album, Mature Themes, arrived, boasting a darker, more eclectic approach that spanned '60s bubblegum homages and a cover of Donnie and Joe Emerson's 1979 soul-pop song "Baby." In 2020, two decades after Pink emerged from the underground with The Doldrums, the Mexican Summer label began the Ariel Archives series, reissuing all of his earlier albums. Haunted Graffiti material dating back to the late '90s was given the deluxe reissue treatment, and offered fans a chance to revisit Pink's unglued pop genius in some of its earliest forms. In January 2021, Mexican Summer dropped Pink after he attended a protest at the White House in support of then-President Trump. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi