I’m loving all of this new Sufjan Stevens news. First he announced a huge U.S. tour. Then he surprised us with a brand new EP (which is fantastic). Now today, he has announced that he (finally) has a new album.
The album is called The Age Of Adz, and will come out on October 12th via Asthmatic Kitty.
This news makes me extremely giddy because it’s the first proper studio album from Sufjan in 5 years (since Illinois!).
The Age of Adz will drop on CD & MP3 on October 12th with a double-LP following on November 9th. You know you want the double-LP. If you pre-order them within the next three weeks, you will receive an mp3 download of a song from the album.
Check out what Asthmatic Kitty had to say about the album:
It’s much too soon to cast descriptive lots, but we can say the new album sounds nothing like the All Delighted EP (although it shares similar themes of love, loss, and the apocalypse). Nor is this new album built around any conceptual underpinning (no odes to states, astrology, or urban expressways).
We can say it shows an extensive use of electronics (banjos and acoustic guitars give way to drum machines and analog synthesizers), and an obsession with cosmic fantasies (space, heaven, aliens, love), to create an explicit pop-song extravaganza, augmented by heavy orchestration, and maybe even a few danceable moments. Enjoy Your Rabbit meets the BQE. But with songs. Verse, chorus, bridge, backbeat. Gated reverb. Space echo. Get your boogey on.
The “Adz” of the title loosely refers to the apocalyptic paintings of outsider artist Royal Robertson (1930-1997), whose work is used for the album cover, interior design, and as general inspiration for the tone of the album.
All I have to say is: Fuck Yeah! I’m about to pre-order my double-LP. Check out the tracklisting, below:
The Age of Adz:
1 Futile Devices
2 Too Much
3 Age of Adz
4 I Walked
5 Now That I’m Older
6 Get Real Get Right
7 Bad Communication
8 Vesuvius
9 All for Myself
10 I Want To Be Well
11 Impossible Soul
Patrick — 26 Aug 10
I saw Sufjan live at Castaways in Ithaca, NY last fall and I just have to say that Impossible Soul is one of the most affective songs that I think he has written, but I’ll let it speak for itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ZZTxIJMz0
The release of the LP may finally motivate me to fix my record player, thanks for the update!
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