The Slow Wonder (studio album) by A.C. Newman

The Slow Wonder by A.C. Newman
Year: 2004
Release date: 2004-06-08
Overall rank: 13,239th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 34 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2004 (212th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (2,405th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,239th)
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77/100 (from 34 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.

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From 03/14/2017 02:44
Easily the best power-pop project of 2004. It's nice to see that Newman can create something on par with his peers. Such a pretty album.
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From 12/10/2011 04:44
A.C. Newman's "slow wonder" will appropriately remind you of the new pornographers, Carl Newman being the primary writer/ringleader. with nearly every song as catchy as the last, full of guitar hooks and overabundant choruses. The album obviously feels like its emanating from one voice, but outside of the absence of neko ("replaced" by sara wheeler), it's a little more of a personal, more multi-instrumental stamp on the new porn sound he helped found. A couple of the tracks on here are slower numbers; not necessarily ballads, but slower-paced than the majority of new porn material.
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