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surprise
Well the words of the prophets are no longer written on the subway walls
here and there and that is all
Surprise, released in mid-2006, is a collaboration between him and Brian Eno and you can most definitely tell - no mellow African choir is to be heard (though he
did manage to pull an energetic Southern Baptist Sunday morning choir out from under his hat.) Quiet introspection doesn t abound here either, nor does self-indulgent string plucking. It s not weepy or purely atmospheric or, well, somnolent - some of it admittedly comes close but there s nothing approaching the likes of, say, Capeman.