- rock, folk rock, soft rock, folk pop
- 45 min
- 11 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
Surprise is the eleventh solo studio album by American musician Paul Simon, released on May 9, 2006. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 and was his final studio album for long-time label Warner Bros. Records.
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Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 78/100
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- The Irish Times4/5 ★
- NME8/10
- The Observer5/5 ★
- Pitchfork5.1/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Uncut4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1How Can You Live in the Northeast?3:42
- 2Everything About It Is a Love Song3:57
- 3Outrageous3:24
- 4Sure Don’t Feel Like Love3:57
- 5Wartime Prayers4:50
- 6Beautiful3:08
- 7I Don’t Believe4:10
- 8Another Galaxy5:22
- 9Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean3:55
- 10That’s Me4:43
- 11Father and Daughter4:11
11 tracks, 45 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Paul Simon
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- May 9, 2006
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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