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New Sufjan Stevens Album Announced: The Ascension
- Thread starter SteveWinwood
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So there was a bunch of deleted text about this album released early, and while I won't post everything from that snippet... this being Sufjan's first proper pop album/Janet Jackson inspired bit has me most excited. Some of the text reads like this is a break up record though, hopefully not biographical because him and his boyfriend are adorable together.
Sufjan Stevens making a more focused pop album is everything. Charli XCX is/was also making a Janet inspired album. 2020 is truly the year of the gays. Interesting that the album art is from a 2009 photo shoot in Chicago, the promo art is from this year. He's age gracefully.
Sufjan Stevens making a more focused pop album is everything. Charli XCX is/was also making a Janet inspired album. 2020 is truly the year of the gays. Interesting that the album art is from a 2009 photo shoot in Chicago, the promo art is from this year. He's age gracefully.
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Asthmatic Kitty was bummed about that text leaking:So there was a bunch of deleted text about this album released early, and while I won't post everything from that snippet... this bit has me most excited. Some of the text reads like this is a break up record though, hopefully not biographical because him and his boyfriend are adorable together.
Sufjan Stevens making a more focused pop album is everything. Charli XCX is/was also making a Janet inspired album. 2020 is truly the year of the gays. Interesting that the album art is from a 2009 photo shoot in Chicago, the promo art is from this year. He's age gracefully.
Oh damn, good to know. Took out the actual text but the context of this being his first proper pop album and Janet Jackson inspired is still important to know. I see a bunch of people expecting Carrie & Lowell pt.2 and should readjust expectations with that. I don't expect this to be anything like C&L.
Oh yeah, people are interpreting "follow-up to C&L" the wrong way. It just means it's his first album since then, not that it's a sequel.
I'm also seeing a ton of people assuming Run Away With Me is a Carly Rae cover, and while that would be insane... I just don't think that is realistic.
It is interesting though, because there are also tracks called Video Game (Lana Del Rey?) and Landslide (Fleetwood Mac), so who knows.
I guess the LDR track is actually called Video Games, so maybe not.
Snagged both the clear LP and the 12" single through my local record store. Support indie record stores!
God I'm pretty fucking ready for this.
I first got into Sufjan fairly recently after his two tracks on Call Me By Your Name, proceeded to consume his entire discography in short order.
Predatory Wasp is and will always be an absolute masterpiece.
I was iffy on Carrie and Lowell initially, because it's by far the heaviest album I've ever heard. I remember listening to Fourth of July and just being like "Jesus, how does anyone get into such a dark spot?"
Then in the past two months my boyfriend died suddenly and my mom died from cancer and I truly don't know if any album in my life has ever made such perfect emotional sense as C&L after that. It's basically been all I've listened to.
Been waiting on the next big entry from him, and now's as good a time as any I guess.
Bring on the gay and sadness.
I first got into Sufjan fairly recently after his two tracks on Call Me By Your Name, proceeded to consume his entire discography in short order.
Predatory Wasp is and will always be an absolute masterpiece.
I was iffy on Carrie and Lowell initially, because it's by far the heaviest album I've ever heard. I remember listening to Fourth of July and just being like "Jesus, how does anyone get into such a dark spot?"
Then in the past two months my boyfriend died suddenly and my mom died from cancer and I truly don't know if any album in my life has ever made such perfect emotional sense as C&L after that. It's basically been all I've listened to.
Been waiting on the next big entry from him, and now's as good a time as any I guess.
Bring on the gay and sadness.
Thanks for this- first two places I looked didn't have the clear vinyl in stock, and this place did.
Can't wait for September to hear this! Carrie and Lowell is fantastic but just too sad for me to ever regularly willingly want to listen to it. Illinois will forever be in my top ten.
Fair warning, I think Bullmoose is overselling it and you aren't guaranteed a copy. Everywhere else has been sold out for hours but they're still selling.
Well dang! No big deal, generally don't care what the actual discs look like but hey, clear is nice! If they cancel my order I'll post back in this thread as a heads up.
Very excited. Stevens is easily my favorite musician/group still working today.
Illinois is a fucking masterpiece and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Illinois is a fucking masterpiece and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
I had quite literally the exact same experience - C&L was on repeat on my daily commute to visit her in palliative care before she died.
Landlocked Records said the clear vinyl is just the US indie shop version, so it shouldn't be too hard to find in the states as more indie shops put theirs up. Which is good news since everything was selling out quick online this morning.
http://store.landlockedmusic.com/product/sufjan
https://endofanear.bigcartel.com/product/sufjan-stevens-the-ascension
(for example)
fwiw Bull Moose's track record on this sort of limited stuff has been pretty good in my experience, but ymmv.
Also, Sufjan is turning 45 tomorrow. He still seems so young, even with the gray hair starting to sprout.
Sufjan Stevens making a more focused pop album is everything. Charli XCX is/was also making a Janet inspired album. 2020 is truly the year of the gays. Interesting that the album art is from a 2009 photo shoot in Chicago, the promo art is from this year. He's age gracefully.
Uh.....HOW IS HE 45?!?!
I know. Although in the past few years he's started to grey a little. But it looks good on him.
America comes out in 11 hours!
Song is out early on Bleep, I downloaded America and My Rajneesh.
https://bleep.com/release/195939-sufjan-stevens-america
This is definitely synth and drum machine focused. Sufjan's vocals are slightly different than what I'm used to, more reminiscent of his style in Sisyphus. My Rajneesh has a cool Age of Adz throwback moment, if you listened to that album.
This is an album closer and sounds as such. Not really indicative of what to expect from the more pop/dance tracks that are expected from this album. It's familiar Sufjan though, so I can see why he picked it as a lead single.
https://bleep.com/release/195939-sufjan-stevens-america
This is definitely synth and drum machine focused. Sufjan's vocals are slightly different than what I'm used to, more reminiscent of his style in Sisyphus. My Rajneesh has a cool Age of Adz throwback moment, if you listened to that album.
This is an album closer and sounds as such. Not really indicative of what to expect from the more pop/dance tracks that are expected from this album. It's familiar Sufjan though, so I can see why he picked it as a lead single.
Doubtful. There's never been giant limited editions of his main albums, outside of the big Xmas box set, just the slightly different color variants.
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yeah but it wasnt funny ten years ago when he already stopped
and it still wasnt funny the fourth time it was brought up in this thread
i dont get it
Well I never my jokes were good!
I'm looking forward to this album anywho. His music always takes me back and the man puts in work. Which is why many were dismayed when he scrapped the project.
No, it was released there early and won't be available until July 10th.
Yeah, it does but I think context about the song is important. This is the closing track. The track before is the title track, which from some leaked text from the record label, features no beats and has a tone change in the album... and leads into America. I think the rest of the album is going to sound slightly different. It was produced primary with synths and drum machines.
God I want this to be more Adz or Delighted People esque as I didnt really care for the direction he was taking with Carol, but not holding my breath. The artwork above gives me a small bit of hope though.
Love Sufjan, and think I agree. Still enjoy Age of Adz and he definitely has a style to his electronic music but he has a lot of other styles that I think he just does better.
6 min to the new song and if you had told me this came from Age of Adz I'd believe you, for better or worse.
Almost certainly a conicidence since Sufjan isn't Catholic and it's a critical song of America so releasing right before July 4th makes sense. But today is the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, "Doubting Thomas".
In fact the Gospel reading has the following line:
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands,
and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe."
Which is directly referenced by America with the lyric:
"I have put my hands in the wounds on your side".
As for the sound Age of Adz is my favorite and I love all his electronic projects over his more acoustic/folk stuff. As such I'm really excited to here the B-Side.
In fact the Gospel reading has the following line:
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands,
and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe."
Which is directly referenced by America with the lyric:
"I have put my hands in the wounds on your side".
As for the sound Age of Adz is my favorite and I love all his electronic projects over his more acoustic/folk stuff. As such I'm really excited to here the B-Side.
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