UNDERGROUND, AN ALBUM ORIGINALLY SELF-RELEASED ON CASSETTE IN 1999 BY THE THEN TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD UNDERGRADUATE CALARTS STUDENT. UNDERGROUND CAPTURES ARIEL PINK’S RAPIDLY DEVELOPING PRACTICE, WHICH IN SHORT TIME SHIFTED FROM CRUDE PROTO-PUNK HOME RECORDINGS TO A SINGULAR AESTHETIC THAT EXPLORED A WIDE SPECTRUM OF POP MUSIC.
REMASTERED AND EXPANDED, THIS VERSION OF UNDERGROUND REVEALS ASTOUNDING DETAILS MISSING FROM ARIEL’S EARLIEST RECORDINGS AND DOCUMENTS THE EVOLUTION OF AN OBSESSIVE MUSIC FAN INTO A STARTLINGLY ORIGINAL AND MYSTERIOUS INNOVATOR.