With Pom Pom, Ariel Marcus Rosenberg a.k.a. Ariel Pink probably released in 2014 his most accomplished recording. The one that also reached the largest audience. The Californian genius of Indie pop showed the full extent of his talent as a writer, composer and singer, able to produce a hit anyone can hum under the shower, as well as vastly more daring and complex compositions. Three years later Dedicated To Bobby Jameson is yet another reminder that Rosenberg can do it all! Now 39 years old, he appears to be more nostalgic than ever. Nostalgic of his own beginnings too, as the lo-fi options of this eleventh album are sometimes reminiscent of his first attempts. There is also an open reference to Bobby Jameson, cited in the album’s title, militant but forgotten cult songwriter of the sixties who battled depression after never reaching the heights of success. A marginal artist Ariel Pink can of course relate to… Even more baroque (sixties psychedelic pop, yet again, from Syd Barrett to the Beatles/Beach Boys), consistently caustic and quirky (Hello Frank Zappa!?) and never backing away from experimentation, Ariel Pink is, above everything else, the craftsman of wonderful melodies. © MD/Qobuz