Originally released in 2001 before Michigan and Illinois, Sufjan Steven s Enjoy Your Rabbit foretells his 2010 electronic Age of Adz. Though overlooked by many, there are fans who regard Enjoy Your Rabbit as Sufjan s greatest work. Departing from the singer-songwriter format of his debut Asthmatic Kitty Records album, A Sun Came, Rabbit is…
The Greatest Gift is a mixtape of outtakes, remixes and demos from Sufjan s 2015 album Carrie & Lowell. Already on vinyl and digital, the mixtape arrives on CD format on November 16. This collection serves as a companion piece to the Carrie & Lowell Live album released earlier this year (and as an expansion…
Asthmatic Kitty announces the second installment of Sufjan Stevens 50 State Project, llinois, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Following the 2003 collection of songs for his home state, Michigan, Stevens presents an emphatic answer to the question: Can a songwriter express the spirit of a state he s never called home?…
Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Over the course of his career, Sufjan Stevens has blurred distinctions between the major and the minor, between the details that color our existence and the big events that frame our lives. He has turned historical footnotes of States into kaleidoscopic pop, and rendered the immeasurable grief of loss with…
Reflections is a recording of Sufjan Stevens’ sixth collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Justin Peck. Originally commissioned for performances (May 17 – 26, 2019) by Houston Ballet, the piano duet was recorded at Oktaven Studios by Ryan Streber and performed by pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick. Reflections is characteristic Stevens: dynamic, melodic, memorable, emotionally resonant,…
When I met Sufjan some time back, he was co-organizing an arts event that we were performing at in New York called “Christ A Go-Go.” The picture I have in my mind from that time is of Sufjan always being somewhere else in the room. “There’s Sufjan over there, you have to meet him and…
The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds) is Sufjan Stevens’ first full-length collection of original songs since 2005’s conceptual pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its extensive use of electronics. The album almost entirely eschews the songwriter’s former tools of the…
The little secret behind Sufjan Steven’s acclaimed Illinois is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in—as did the opinions of others—and the project was cut in half. But as…
Aporia is a New Age album from Sufjan Stevens and his step-father and record label co-owner, Lowell Brams, brimming with moody, hooky, gauzy synthesizer soundscapes and created collaboratively in the spirit of the New Age composers who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth; Aporia is not a mere curio in the Sufjan Stevens…
This deluxe edition of The Decalogue comprises a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket, 180-gram vinyl, 40 page songbook, 9×12 art print, and download card.The title of The Decalogue has a touch of the grandiose: it means The Ten Commandments. Yet this score, composed by Sufjan Stevens for a dance work choreographed by Justin Peck that premiered…
Sugar Ray became widely known through their infectious pop single “Fly”, and a consequent lighter musical direction displayed by songs like “Every Morning”, “Someday”, and “When It s Over”. However, at Sugar Ray s earliest conception, they were a rock metal band at heart, with enough goofy energy to land them a deal with Atlantic…
A new generation of thrash metal youngsters has risen from the ashes of a club of titans like Slayer, Exodus, Kreator and many more. Greek ambassadors supreme Suicidal Angels are one of the most jaw-dropping representatives of the injection of new blood. At the dawning of Spring, this four-piece of these energetic thrashers will release…
A Way of Life was recorded in the fashion of a live album and the result is a timeless masterwork that possesses a raw, confrontational edge, similar to Suicide s first album. A Way of Life s accompanying live disc is a challenging encounter between the band and their audience at the Town and Country…
Sultan is Londoner with roots in the Caribbean (his parents are of Barbadian and Vincentian descent). He is a product of both Tomorrow’s Warriors and the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy (JJJA). Sultan is the first to admit that he has absorbed the work of many of the greats of the jazz piano – there has…
Canadian rock band Sum 41 formed in 1996 in Ajax, Ontario. In 2000 they released their debut extended play Half Hour Of Power on Big Rig Records, a subsidiary of Island Records. Officially it s an EP, but many consider it to be their first studio album. It was produced by lead singer and frontman Deryck Whibley (also known as Bizzy D)…