Ariel Pink with Jack Name

Ariel Pink’s sound may have changed quite a bit over the years, but this indie kingpin has always rooted his sound in quirky pop. Pitchfork has given his albums an 8.8 and a 4.4. His music is smart, catchy, and genre-morphing in the pleasant way that Beck used to be. Basically he’s a lot like Beck, before you knew that Beck was a Scientologist, so you stopped liking him.