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

"Round and Round" is a song written and performed by the American hypnagogic pop band Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.[4] 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.

"Round and Round"
Single by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
from the album Before Today
A-side	"Mistaken Wedding"
Released	April 26, 2010[1]
Genre	Soft rock[2] downtempo pop[3]
Length	5:13
Label	4AD
Songwriter(s)	Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
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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."[5] The Atlantic's 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"[6] and number two on "The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)".[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Round and Round"	5:13
2.	"Mistaken Wedding"	4:02
Total length:		9:15

References

1. "Round and Round by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti". 4AD. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
2. Petridis, Alexis (November 13, 2014). "Ariel Pink: Pom Pom review – pop music by someone who thinks it's beneath him". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
3. Hinkes-Jones, Llewellyn (15 July 2010). "Downtempo Pop: When Good Music Gets a Bad Name". The Atlantic.
4. Schreiber, Ryan. "Best New Track: "Round and Round" by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
5. Beta, Andy (September 13, 2012). "Cover Story: Ariel Pink". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
6. "The Top 100 Tracks of 2010". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
7. "The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 18 August 2014.