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Metacritic	85/100
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AllMusic
The A.V. Club	B
The Guardian
The Irish Times
Mojo
NME	8/10
Pitchfork	9.0/10
Q
Spin	7/10
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Before Today is an album by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, released on June 8, 2010, by 4AD. The album's lead single "Round and Round" was ranked by Pitchfork as the best track of 2010.Pitchfork also placed the album at number 9 on its list of "The Top 50 Albums of 2010".

The album's opening track, "Hot Body Rub" previously appeared (in an alternative version) on an EP Ariel Pink with Added Pizzazz, which was a collaboration between Vas Deferens Organization (as producers) and Ariel Pink who are friends to each other. VDO provided production for this track, as well as thanks to one of its members, Eric Lumbleau, Pink made friends with Gonzales family who appeared on it.

The album contains several homages to vintage rock and roll songs, such as "Bright Lit Blue Skies" which was originally recorded by the Rockin' Ramrods in 1966, and "Beverly Kills," which draws heavily on Ago's 1982 track "For You." "Reminiscences" is an instrumental cover of an Ethiopian pop song, "I Remember a Man" by Yeshimebet Dubale.

Exclaim! named "Before Today" the No. 15 Pop & Rock Album of 2010.Exclaim! writer Dimitri Nasrallah said that "Before Today is a hard-earned victory lap for Pink, not only the most triumphantly realized album of his left-of-centre catalogue, but a much-needed second wind for an artist who very nearly finished off the decade as another minor curiosity in outsider-pop's long lineage."

As of 2011 it has sold 25,942 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.

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