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Universal acclaim- based on 55 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 55
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Mixed: 2 out of 55
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Negative: 4 out of 55
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CMiddlemanJun 10, 2006good goddamn, this record is insipid
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AlecEMay 12, 2006Brian Eno producing? This album is ridiculously precocious...some executives sitting around saying "Let's make it sound modern, hip, something the kids will like..." We liked him fine before you made a Paul Simon triphop record.
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Awards & Rankings
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Despite the album's shiny surface, Simon sounds like Simon.
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"Surprise" falls shy of a masterpiece, but it is consistently engaging and offers some of Simon's most creative songs in two decades.
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An ambitious and challenging work full of sonic experimentation and oblique lyrics.