The Slow Wonder
by A.C. Newman
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The Slow Wonder is ranked as the best album by A.C. Newman.
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The Slow Wonder track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Slow Wonder rankings
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The Slow Wonder ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/09/2026 23:16 |  Repo | 2,212 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/13/2024 14:56 | thepurplemartin | 554 | 76/100 |
| ! | 04/16/2024 17:44 | cicadelic | 13,555 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/07/2023 19:09 |  zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2023 18:03 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,713 | 74/100 |
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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 77.5/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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Komorebi-D 03/14/2017 02:44 | #187392
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.
paladisiac 12/10/2011 04:44 | #32579
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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