fascinating sonic collage that skews his pop-star image 180 degrees". Evan Minsker of Pitchfork wrote it was "a trippy, constantly moving album that's as psychedelically detailed as it is (intentionally) creepy—not unlike the Sparks record he had recently helmed." Sam Richards of The Guardian compared the album to be "harmonically richer and more ambitiously deranged than The White Album and prefigured Prince's Purple Rain by a decade." Mojo editors deemed it "his finest hour." In 2006, the album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Conversely, Ben Sisario wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that Wizard was "an endurance test of stylistic diversity, with just three fully realized songs ('Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel,' 'International Feel,' and 'Just One Victory') stranded in the midst of so much half-baked sonic decoration." Influence and legacy In 2017, Rundgren delivered a commencement speech to the Berklee College of Music in which he stated, in part: The album's musician admirers include Tame Impala and the electronic bands Simian Mobile Disco, Daft Punk, and Hot Chip. According to Stanley, the album's effervescent sound "predicted Prince in its playful R&B fizz, and a swathe of twenty-first-century electropop acts from the Avalanches to Hot Chip". "International Feel" was prominently featured in Daft Punk's 2006 film Electroma. In 2018, Pitchforks Sam Sodsky noted that the "fingerprints" of Wizard remain "evident on bedroom auteurs to this day, from Ariel Pink to Frank Ocean, who sampled its synths on 2016's Blonde." Jellyfish and Imperial Drag co-founder Roger Joseph Manning Jr. praised the record for its unusual sound: "Stuff is distorting. Parts are panned all crazy; there’s so much nuttiness going on, but it ends up enhancing his songs because it adds that much more charm and character." There was no consideration to perform the album in its entirety at the time of release due to the difficulty in reproducing many of its sounds. One song, "Just One Victory", did become a staple of Rundgren's concert performances as a closer. He later remarked that "People get pissed if we don't do it." In 2009, he toured Wizard for the first time, playing the album in its entirety. The concerts featured an elaborate theatrical effects and numerous costume changes. A second tour of the album was scheduled for 2020. Track listing Personnel Todd Rundgren – vocals, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, bass guitar, drums,