This is his first properly recorded work, the rest being murky, home taped affairs. He pretty much defined a whole genre of strange, echoey monophonic pop (chillwave, glo-fi, whatever). Its nice to hear his songwriting given a more traditional studio production. Still f--kin bonkers tho. You need this album Massive!

does something very similar with 80s dance-pop:

Like Ariel Pink, it's sort of creepy-sounding, and the faux-naif aspect of it has the potential to be irritating, but somehow they pull it off.

I think they may be part of the same LA circle of artists...

on Spotify.

As a result of recommendation by Cathal Coughlan, no less.

Bit mad, in a good way. Worthy of attention, massive.

but it was nothing near as good as the reviews said.
To me, most of it is good background music, but nothing leaps out and makes me go WOW - I have to hear that again!
Maybe I just expected too much...