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Before Today - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 48 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 48
  3. Negative: 4 out of 48

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  1. WhiteCannon
    Sep 10, 2010
    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.
  2. Tubie
    Nov 3, 2010
    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.
  3. Film_Fanatic_15
    Nov 22, 2010
    6
    It feels as if every alternative band nowadays tries to go 80's on us, and it isn't working. The album would be better off without any vocals, and the rhythms are the only thing that keeps this somewhat intelligent album afloat. But hey, it works a little bit.
  4. organum
    Jul 9, 2011
    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.
  5. Ricko
    Nov 4, 2011
    7
    What a diverse album this is. Imagine a hybrid band of Joy Division and the Pixies with a synth player playing at a Halloween Disco party. It’s pretty weird in places but the peppiness is undeniable throughout. It’s not an album I thought I’d like but the more I’ve listened to it the more I’ve found myself bopping along to it.
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Metascore
85 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. cokemachineglow
    74
    While he may be fundamentally un-reconstructed, Pink's clearly a more polished revisionist, more polished than he's ever been, and while it may not be conventionally recorded, Before Today still feels punchily archetypal.
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  2. Drowned In Sound
    80
    This isn't a few Eighties synth presets stuck through a distortion pedal--it's music that resonates far beyond a simple aping of well established precedents, often managing to be funny, sad and thought provoking in the space of a single track.
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  3. 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.
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