Time Taunts Me

Trekky Records initially released Time Taunts Me as a seven-song EP back in 2007, which served as many listeners' introduction to Ari Picker's hauntingly unique and compelling brand of orchestral folk. The EP won glowing reviews; Pitchfork Media called it 'orchestral and ambitious...[an] intensely lush collection?', while PopMatters likened it to 'the soundtrack to your favorite indie film'. Time Taunts Me quickly went out of print. Over the past three years, between extensive touring and multiple releases, Picker found himself returning to the bedroom recordings of Time Taunts Me, fleshing out and augmenting the baroque compositions until they were as big as they sounded in his head. Picker also recorded three new songs, written during the Time Taunts Me sessions but never put to tape, expanding the seven-song EP into a proper full-length. This is Time Taunts Me the way Picker always envisioned it; and the way the world should hear it now. The album is a snapshot of a younger Ari Picker, searching for peace and shelter from external forces, discovering his musical voice and creating a vibrant, orchestrated sonic palette.