Listen: Ariel Pink Shares Two Tracks, Including a Shaggs Cover, From Early Live Recordings Comp

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Ariel Pink: "Tractor Man" on SoundCloud.

Ariel Pink's next release will look back on the avant-pop artist's early days. A 2xCD archival collection called Early Live Recordings will be out December 17 through Human Ear Music, documenting Pink's live performances prior to Haunted Graffiti. At the time, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Pink was working under the names â€œGorilla” and “Appleasians”.

The label calls Early Live Recordings a "conceptual counterpart" to Pink's late 1990s musique concrète release, Thrash & Burn, which it reissued last year—the songs were "salvaged from the same scratchpile of crumbling CD-R and eight-track cassettes" and remastered. 

Check out his cover of the Shaggs' "My Cutie", plus his song "Tractor Man", both via No Fear of Pop.

Read our Cover Story on Ariel Pink and watch him play "Beverly Kills" for Pitchfork.tv:

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