New Sufjan Stevens

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kfPmInRLts[/ame]

 

[pallenk]

i love sufjan. can't wait for him to release a new album. i also hope joanna newsom releases one soon too. anyway, he writes good songs. and he is hot. and pretty down to earth.

 

[hungrybrownbear]

They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!...
:]]]

 

[miaedu]

more new Sufjan:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ZZTxIJMz0[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

another great new song:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j3bddVbduQ[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

Sufjan Stevens' first proper new album since 2005's Illinoise (discounting the epic The BQE score, the 21-track The Avalanche outtakes album, etc.) finds the poster boy for earnest, ambitious orchestrated folk-pop looking in new directions for inspiration, both lyrically and musically, eschewing his much-ballyhooed series of albums about U.S. states (after only two entries -- don't hold your breath, South Dakota) for far more personal, and intensely emotional subject matter, and trading in his banjo for an flashing computer console. It is a bold move for an artist whose career has been built around a series of them, and the results are startlingly satisfying. Stevens has retained much of what has always made his music intoxicating; the hooky, harmony-laden choruses, the deft, soaring orchestration, the earworm lyric turns are all here, but the sound and the mood are totally new.

The album art, and supposedly the thematic inspiration, comes from Creole folk artist Royal Robertson, whose felt-tip nightmares tell sci-fi stories of robots and spaceships mixed with very human fear, loneliness and betrayal. But while Robertson's artwork may encompass the broad themes of The Age of Adz, line by line this is an intensely personal album, with stories that speak to love, loss, confusion, bitterness and ambition in a scary modern world. Musically, the defining sound here may be the Auto-Tuned vocals that Stevens employs for a pulsing breakdown halfway through the epic 25-minute set-closing "Impossible Soul." No, he is not trying to be T-Pain, but this flourish, used in earnest as he hisses and moans, "Stupid man, in the window, I couldn't be at rest / All my delight, all that mattered, I couldn't be at rest," sounds remarkably right in this existential crisis of a love song, as Stevens turns himself inside out. Throughout, the squiggling and squelching production evokes modern R&B as well as some of the "alternative" artists who have employed its tricks, like Radiohead, Bjork or TV on the Radio, with slippery electronics weaving in and out of tight orchestrations that can evoke Steve Reich, Curtis Mayfield or John Williams in equal parts. But at its core, this is pure Sufjan Stevens, always a challenging, genre-pushing artist who continues to blaze his own path through the once-simple jungle that is pop music today. Through and through, a great album, not to be missed

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnycQL6UTow[/ame]

 

[hungrybrownbear]

Ah yes, major influences include: Steve Reich, Phillip Glass.

AHAHAHHAHA

 

[ohhi12]

i will marry that man. true story.

 

[hungrybrownbear]

He's very straight, trust me my gay friend was his roommate during college and tried in vain to get at him

 

[miaedu]

Sufjan Stevens — "Get Real, Get Right"

In addition to his duties as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, indie polymath Sufjan Stevens tries on the Director and Animator roles for his latest video. "Get Real, Get Right" is the newest single from last year's The Age of Adz.

http://vimeo.com/25681821

 

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Sufjan Stevens, "Year of the Tiger"

 

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Sufjan Stevens - "Carrie & Lowell"

Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M

Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

Sufjan Stevens on Tour:

04-10 Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music
04-11 New York, NY - Beacon Theater
04-12 Hartford, CT - The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
04-14 Portland, ME - Merrill Auditorium
04-15 Albany, NY - The Palace Theater
04-16 Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Masonic Auditorium
04-17 Columbus, OH - Palace Theater
04-18 Indianapolis, IN - The Murat Theatre
04-20 St. Louis, MO - Peabody Opera House
04-21 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater
04-22 Minneapolis, MN - Northrop Auditorium
04-23 Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater
04-24 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
04-27 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple
04-28 Grand Rapids, MI - Covenant Fine Arts Center
04-29 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
04-30 Montreal, Quebec - Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier/Place Des Artes
05-01 Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
05-04 Boston, MA - Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre
05-05 Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall
05-06 Richmond, VA - Altria Theater
05-07 Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center
05-09 New Orleans, LA - Saenger Theatre
05-10 Dallas, TX - Majestic Theatre
05-11 Houston, TX - Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
05-12 Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
06-02 San Diego, CA - Copley Symphony Hall
06-03 Los Angeles, CA - Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
06-05 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
06-08 Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
06-09 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
06-10 Seattle, WA - The Paramount Theatre
09-04-06 North Dorset England - End of the Road Festival

 

[miaedu]

Sufjan Stevens & Yarn / Wire, ROUND-UP Commissioned by BAM

 

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Sufjan Stevens, "No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross"

 

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Sufjan Stevens - ON TOUR

 

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Sufjan Stevens - "Should Have Known Better"

 

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First Listen: Sufjan Stevens, 'Carrie & Lowell'

stream the album at: http://www.npr.org/2015/03/22/393575866/first-listen-sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell

 

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Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing" (Official Audio)

 

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Sufjan Stevens, "Blue Bucket Of Gold" (Official Audio)