The Doldrums (album)

The Doldrums
Studio album by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Released	2000 October 11, 2004 (re-issue)
Recorded	September 1999–April 2000
Genre	Lo-fi[1] hypnagogic pop[2] dream pop[3]
Length	62:10
Label	Paw Tracks (re-issue)
Producer	Ariel Pink
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti chronology
Underground (Haunted Graffiti 1) (1999) The Doldrums (Haunted Graffiti 2) (2000) Scared Famous (Haunted Graffiti 3) (2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Mojo	[5]
Pitchfork Media	5.0/10[6]
Spin	A[1]
Stylus Magazine	B+[7]
Uncut	[8]

The Doldrums is an album by American lo-fi musician Ariel Pink, and the second in his Haunted Graffiti series. The album was originally issued in 2000 in CD-R format, copies of which were handmade by Pink himself.^[9] One such copy was passed on by Pink to the rock band Animal Collective, who found the copy on their tour van floor and, impressed by its music, later contacted Pink and offered to re-issue it on their own Paw Tracks label.^[9][8] The Doldrums was subsequently re-issued on October 11, 2004 by Paw Tracks as the first of a series of re-issues of Haunted Graffiti albums by the label.^[10]

Critic Simon Reynolds named the album among the best records of the decade.^[11]

Track listing

All songs written by Ariel Pink.

1. "Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups" – 4:39
2. "Strange Fires" – 4:06
3. "Among Dreams" – 4:19
4. "For Kate I Wait" – 4:19
5. "Haunted Graffiti" – 3:50
6. "Gray Sunset" – 3:38
7. "The Doldrums" – 4:02
8. "Envelopes Another Day" – 5:08
9. "The Ballad of Bobby Pyn" – 10:58
10. "Don't Think Twice (Love)" – 2:05
11. "Until the Night Dies" – 3:43
12. "Crying" – 2:17
13. "Theme from Unreleased 'Claris Gardens'" – 2:52
14. "Let's Build a Campfire There" – 4:09
15. "Young Pilot Astray" – 2:32

References