Before Today

by Ariel Pink / Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "BEFORE TODAY is his first move into cleanly produced pop, with Pink pouring his deranged wit into Eighties soft rock and hypnotic melodies..."
"Every aspect seems faded and warped, but that doesn't obscure Pink's savvy maneuvering -- from the peepy 'Bright Lit Blue Skies' to the hardcore prog of 'Little Wig.'"
4 stars out of 5 -- "'Bright Lit Blue Skies' is a terrific psych-pop nugget....Ariel Pink is probably the best weirdo pop savant to emerge from the American underground since Beck."
Ranked #6 in Uncut's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[T]hey still retained the queasy, lysergic qualities of Pink's earliest albums."
"[With] kaleidoscopic studio experimentation and a widescreen rending of his LA dreamland."
4 stars out of 5 -- "There's a strange magpie-like sensibility to Ariel Pink's music....It's actually quite brilliantly conceived."
Ranked #16 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[T]his was an album of possessed, ageless beauty."
Pitchfork (Website) - "Songs like 'Little Wig' have so many interesting interlocking parts that they can almost feel proggy, despite their relative brevity and tight pop structures."