Before Today
by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Jun 8, 2010
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 81 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 81
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 81
  3. Negative: 5 out of 81

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#24 Best Album of 2010
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#100 Most Discussed Album of 2010
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#87 Most Shared Album of 2010

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Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 25 Critic Reviews

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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