They are back! The package includes remixes by Les Petits Pilous, Toxic Avenger and Franz & Shape.

Round Table Knights are back with a new cut to the top! Following on from their colossal Made To Play debut ‘Calypso’, the Swiss visionaries return with an equally infectious summer hit. A collaborative effort between Round Table Knights and the Swiss garage-rock legend Reverend Beat-Man, ‘Cut To The Top’ combines elements of garage and blues with the duo’s instantly recognizable chugging house beats.

It's a rare feat for artists to maintain a truly unique sound while taking their music in a direction that appeals to a wider audience. For those who've been following along for a few years, this is a groundbreaking record that condenses and amplifies Ariel Pink's most accessible tendencies. But the brilliant thing about Before Today is that no prior knowledge of his catalog is required. Newcomers can dig into this record and absorb all of these weird and wonderful songs now, and save the backstory for another day.

You could call this ambient music, or Kosmische; it's certainly indebted to Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. But it also sounds unusually original, which is a word you don't get to use so often. I'm tempted to say that it's an unusually tactile music, as though you could hear Lopatin feeling his way across the surfaces of his machines. (It is, without a doubt, incredibly sensuous music.) But I'm not sure that that's true, either, given the way the sounds so often seem to materialize out of thin air. Having softened his attacks and smeared his notes into indefinite shapes, he seems to sever the music from any kind of causality, so that it simply floats freely, morphing, rippling in a dance of infinite regeneration, like some perfect lifeform.