“Six years ago — after more than a decade of conceptual forays into South African mbqanga, Brazilian folk music and show tunes — Paul Simon released You’re the One, a pretty, relatively straight singer-songwriter album spiked with doses of jazzy patter and modest orchestrations. Surprise plays like a sister record to You’re the One, with […]”
“Famed singer-songwriter enlists Brian Eno to create the sort of newfangled electronica-meets-classic-rock album that Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and Eric Clapton attempted last decade.”
