| Today Wonder | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Ed Kuepper |
| Cover: | Today Wonder.jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Recorded: | February 1988 |
| Studio: | Electric Avenue, Sydney, Australia |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 78:31 (2002 reissue) |
| Label: | Hot |
| Producer: | Ed Kuepper |
| Chronology: | Ed Kuepper |
| Prev Title: | Everybody's Got To |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Honey Steel's Gold |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Today Wonder is the fourth solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper. It was recorded in 1990 by Kuepper and drummer Mark Dawson and released on the Hot label.[1] The album was re-released in 2002 with eight bonus tracks recorded for a Dutch radio station.
Five years after the recording, Kuepper said, "I wanted to do something that had a much looser approach. Today Wonder was about as open as you can get. They were all demos. The album I did in a weekend with Dawson." Kuepper approached many record labels with none showing any interest. "We hawked them around everywhere Given that a couple of the songs on that album have broken me, it's pretty ironic. Record companies just couldn't hear anything."[2]
The AllMusic review by Ned Raggett awarded the album 4 stars and states "Today Wonder in many ways was the release that helped determine part (if not all) of Ed Kuepper's future work. Specifically, it's the way around close, quiet, but still tense and strong performances... The end result's a beauty of a record".[3]
Clinton Walker described the album as "remarkable for the nature of the songs themselves, as Kuepper plumbed a personal honesty that most singer/songwriters wouldn't dare confront. Today Wonder, in finding new dimensions and textures again, was nothing short or revelatory."
All writing by Ed Kuepper, except where indicated.
Bonus track on CD reissue
Tracks 11–18 recorded in the Netherlands.