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Before Today - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
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85 out of 100

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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 47 Ratings

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  • Summary: Los Angeles-based Ariel Pink releases his first album on the 4AD label.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. The Boston Phoenix
    100
    He's no slouch in his endless catalogue of exhumed pop tropes, and here he treats radio pop's past with the all-encompassing vagueness of its title.
  2. BBC Music
    90
    In fact, every track on this superb album is a winner--and, draped in the quiet glamour, fun and stateliness of bygone radio pop-rock, evidence that Ariel has emerged from his bedroom to exact his revenge on Hollywood's Hills.
  3. musicOMH.com
    50
    No longer the challenging, lo-fi music of yore, what has arrived in its place doesn't have the individuality or character to sustain longer lasting interest.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Tubie
    10
    In my opinion the best album of 2010, not that this was a good year in music anyways, but still a great album with every song being unique and still related. Arial perfects the lo-fi formula with this album improving on his previous work and finally reaching his peak to this day.… Expand
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  2. WhiteCannon
    9
    Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti might seem to be a throwback to the previous decades of music, but in fact this is one of the most modern albums to come out this year.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. organum
    9
    One of the best album of 2010 in my opinion and one of my favourite lo-fi albums of all time. It sounds a lot like music from the eighties, but there isn't a band from the era that sounds like them.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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