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Dare to Be Surprised

album by The Folk Implosion

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5222477 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dare to Be Surprised is the second studio album by the Folk Implosion. It was released on Communion in 1997.

Production

The liner notes state that the album was "recorded at Bliss onto videotape, 8-16 tracks," and that "no analog equipment was used in the production of this record (except for a couple of things)."

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the album "one of the finest items in their respective catalogs." Mark Binelli of Spin commented that "the record feels frigid, less a true attempt at seduction than a tepid toe-suck."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dare to Be Surprised” as album by The Folk Implosion. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dare, Surprised and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-04-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dare, Surprised and album providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5222477. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dare to Be Surprised” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.