It was just last week that Sufjan Stevens unveiled to the world his most recent material, the one hour long All Delighted People EP. Seems like it was all just one big chunky appetizer seeing how we just received an official press release announcing the artist’s new full length, titled “Age of Adz” (supposedly spelled ‘age of odds’ according to the press release), an album filled with motifs like “love, sex, death, disease, anxiety and…
Your favorite orchestral indie maestro is back, as Sufjan Stevens released a brand new 8-track, one hour long EP, titled “All Delighted People”, this weekend all without any notice. I’m gonna spare you the details, as I’m sure your just as curious to hear the new material as I was I first heard about it, so I’ll just leave you to the full EP stream below. Of course, you can buy the EP for the…
This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) At the beginning of the decade, one of the nation’s most talented songwriters Sufjan Stevens endeavored in a project as ambitious as it was preposterous, called The Fifty States project. Sufjan intended to share his vision on American life and culture…
Sufjan Stevens once had a plan so ambitious, so preposterous, that it seemed like one of those ‘just crazy enough to work’ things – write a concept album about each of the 50 states. He started off with the midwest when he released the lush “Michigan” in 2003, before carrying on with the magnificent 2005 “Illinois”, which, among other gems in the tracklist, features “Chicago”, Sufjan’s best song to date by far! Something happen afterwards,…
Photo by Mocking Music If the recent shopping spree traffic had some negative affect on your jovial holiday spirit, here’s a bit of spiritual elevation from behalf, of whom has recently become to us the new indie Christmas elf, [tag]Sufjan Stevens[/tag]. Sounds Familyre just compiled a list of new interpretations of traditional Christmas carols as well as original songs, with free streams and mp3, that also includes Sufjan’s take of the classic “We Wish You…
If you’ve been living in a cave or something like that, then you should know that a [tag]Bob Dylan[/tag] biopic titled I’m Not There is set to run on the big screens next month. You can’t really make a movie about Bob Dylan without a proper soundtrack and the current excellent cover songs performed by various artists ranging from indie to pop to rave do well in paying tribute to the legendary artist. “I’m Not…
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