Video: Sufjan Stevens- Age of Adz from Castaways in Ithaca 9/23/09 (HD)

The Age of Adz is occasionally transfixing, but overall inconsistent. On the title track of The Age of Adz, Sufjan Stevens sings "I have known you for just a little while / I feel I must be wearing my welcome / I must be moving on." The emotionally direct, apologetic quality of the song's conclusion answers years of speculation concerning the direction the artist would take with the official follow-up to 2005's critically adored Illinois. In the wake of numerous unofficial releases, side projects, and...

Sono passati solo pochi giorni dalla release digitale di "All Delighted People" , il nuovo - bellissimo - Ep di Sufjan Stevens e arriva la notizia di un nuovo lavoro di lunga durata: il prossimo album è pronto, si intitola "The Age of Adz" (si pronuncia Odds ) e uscirà il 12 ottobre di quest'anno. La cover (che potete ammirare a inizio post) spiega già molto della particolarità del nuovo progetto. "The Age of Adz" infatti, è un riferimento all'arte di Royal Robertson , un artista malato di schizofrenia, tanto da [...]

As you may have heard, Sufjan Stevens is back with a new full-length album on October 12th (I did mention it yesterday, after all). Three of the eleven tracks on the record have been played live, and you can stream/watch them all here.

Sufjan Stevens @ ATP NY ( more by Ryan Muir ) "When Illinois and Late Registration placed #1 and #2 in Pitchfork's Top Albums of 2005 list, some took it as symbolic, a situation in which a hip-hop record that catered to every single rockist habit in the book still played runner-up to our precious lily-livered indie rock. But they're a hell of a lot closer than they look: each a staggeringly ambitious, lushly orchestrated big-top extravaganza whose ringleader mixes in frivolous tall tales and Chicago civic pride with heavy meditations [...]

Fjölmargir eru líklega orðnir langeygðir eftir nýju efni frá indíeftirlætinu Sufjan Stevens . Sú var tíðinn að hann sendi frá sér plötur árlega uppfullar af allskyns skemmtilegum lögum en síðustu ár hefur verið fremur hljótt um hann. Nú virðist vera að færast smá líf í kappann að nýju en í október koma tvær skífur út frá honum, Run Rabbit Run (sem er hálfgerð endurgerð af Enjoy Your Rabbit (2001)) og hljómsveitarsvítan The BQE . Aðdáendur Sufjans bíða þó líklegast mest eftir næstu "hefðbundnu" plötu kappans og þó að engin formleg tilkynning um útgáfu hafi [...]

• Sufjan Stevens - Age Of Adz (Live)
• Sufjan Stevens - There's Too Much Love (Live)

Depois de passar 2 anos nos fazendo imaginar o que seria que ele estava fazendo, Sufjan Stevens parece estar a toda em 2009. Com dois álbuns vindo aí - "The BQE" e a regravação de "Enjoy Your Rabbit" de 2001 sob o nome de "Run Rabbit Run" - Sufjan ainda tem tocado faixas inéditas na mini-turnê que tem feito pelos EUA. Vocês já ouviram "There's Too Much Love" e agora já podem sonhar com as versões de estúdio de "Impossible Souls" e "Age Of Adz" , que vão na mesma linha [...]

Sufjan Stevens has been playing new songs on his recent tour, three of which (from his Ithaca show) were just set loose on YouTube. "Too Much Love" was reposted by Pitchfork on Friday; "Impossible Souls" and "Age of Adz" just went up today. Longer than his more conventional songs, these tunes convey an experimental jazz influence. [ Pitchfork ]

Why does Sufjan Stevens hate pop music? Why's a guy with such a talent for writing evocative pop music gotta get all arty and jazzy on our asses and make seven-plus minute long jams with long, cacophonous freakouts? Why? Because...

Scott tells me that when he lived in Ithaca the only live music there was ska. Well, now the live music includes expansive glitch-y songs by Sufjan Stevens. No sooner did we post the man's interview with Shannon Stephens , then a live version of this new song "There's Too Much Love" pops up and out. The 7-minute epic encore was captured on high-quality video from Soof's visit to Castaways with Cryptacize. Note the heavy guitar riffing and noisy jazz breakdown, right before things head into some heady (and zany) Bitches Brew zone. (Hey, maybe the Polvo-esque [...]