Round and Round (Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti song) explained

Round and Round
Cover:	Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.png
Type:	single
Artist:	Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Album:	Before Today
A-Side:	Mistaken Wedding
Released:	^[1]
Genre:	Soft rock^[2] downtempo pop^[3] disco^[4]
Length:	5:13
Label:	4AD

"Round and Round" is a song written and performed by the American hypnagogic pop band Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.^[5] It was released as a double A-side on April 26, 2010 and appeared as the fifth track on Before Today, the band's debut album on 4AD.

Guitarist Cole M. Greif-Neill recalled of the track's creation: "[It] was like two songs in one. We wrote new parts and rearranged it in a total ramshackle way into a very-not-cohesive song."^[6] The Atlantics Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones described the song's styles ranging "from King Sunny Ade afropop to Holland-era Beach Boys with elements of musique concrete dropped in here and there."^[3]

Pitchfork ranked the track at number one on "The Top 100 Tracks of 2010"^[7] and number two on "The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)".^[8]

Notes and References

Web site: Round and Round by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. 4AD. 30 June 2012.
Web site: Petridis, Alexis. November 13, 2014. Ariel Pink: Pom Pom review – pop music by someone who thinks it's beneath him. The Guardian. November 16, 2014.
Web site: Downtempo Pop: When Good Music Gets a Bad Name. The Atlantic. 15 July 2010. Hinkes-Jones. Llewellyn.
Web site: Rosen, Armin. June 15, 2022. Code Pink How Pitchfork darling Ariel Pink became a music industry untouchable. Tablet. March 11, 2024.
Web site: Schreiber. Ryan. Best New Track: "Round and Round" by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Pitchfork Media. 27 April 2017.
Web site: Cover Story: Ariel Pink. Beta . Andy . September 13, 2012 . . December 15, 2014.
Web site: The Top 100 Tracks of 2010. Pitchfork Media. 30 June 2012.
Web site: The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far (2010-2014). Pitchfork Media. 18 August 2014.