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PAUL SIMON - Surprise
| Entertainment Weekly | | You can call him Rhymin' Simon, but Pensive, Deeply Philosophical Paul is more like it. Surprise, like 2000's You're the One, is light on levity and big on mortality, the meaning of the cosmos, and other existential crises — demanding stuff that probably won't raise his commercial stock among boomers who would rather be coddled than challenged after a tiring day....full text |
| | Uncut | | The last decade and a half have been lean years for Paul Simon. 1990's Rhythm Of The Saints was an even more satisfying realisation of his global beat flirtation than Graceland four years earlier. Yet when he eventually followed it, 1997's musical The Capeman and its attendant album found him struggling to adapt to the different structural and narrative demands a theatrical production place on a songwriter....full text |
| | USA Today | | Rhymin' Simon's first album since 2000's You're the One coincides with the 20th anniversary of Graceland. While lacking that landmark's global adventurism, Surprise packs a few surprises of its own, most notably in the verve of Simon's lucid melodies and the emotional and technical purity of his vocals, especially the upper range, where you'd expect some corrosion after 64 years....full text |
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