Album of the day (#3653): The Age Of Adz by Sufjan Stevens
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- Posted: 12/18/2020 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3653): The Age Of Adz by Sufjan Stevens
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Today's album of the day
The Age Of Adz by Sufjan Stevens (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2010.
Country: 
Overall rank: 312
Average rating: 80/100 (from 733 votes).
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Tracks:
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
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PossiblyMichigan
Location: How do I meet the strangest men?
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- Posted: 12/18/2020 21:19
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Sufjan's opus. A whole career's worth of emotional reservedness coupled with maximalist postmodern wikipedia retellings give way to an explosion of bottled up feelings of frustration and Suf taking maybe a few years worth of studying outsider music's mixing patterns (I hate that term outsider art, it's usually used to categorize artists into ableist contexts but Suf's definitely pulling from obscure appalachian folk singers to barely legible diy drum rhythms to the cover artist so I think it fits) and then just going bonzo on the mixing dials.
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Luigii
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Age: 30
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- Posted: 12/18/2020 21:31
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Wonderful record. Though, I'd argue on an emotional and musical craft level, The Ascension took it as my favorite and possibly best record from him. Still got a while before finishing up his albums up.
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EyeKanFly
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Location: Gotham 
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- Posted: 12/18/2020 21:43
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| Luigii wrote: | | Wonderful record. Though, I'd argue on an emotional and musical craft level, The Ascension took it as my favorite and possibly best record from him. Still got a while before finishing up his albums up. |
He's got some weird stuff but Age of Adz as well as The Ascension are definitely highlights. Both in a similar vein too, totally different from Seven Swans, Michigan, Illinois, or Carrie & Lowell. But still incredible.
Sufjan is one of very few artists who has the vision to go smooth and soft or harsh and bombastic and STILL make both of them work. Not to mention soft and bombastic or harsh and soft
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DommeDamian
Imperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addiction
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Age: 24
Location: where the flowers grow. 
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Luigii
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Age: 30
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- Posted: 12/18/2020 22:39
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| EyeKanFly wrote: | He's got some weird stuff but Age of Adz as well as The Ascension are definitely highlights. Both in a similar vein too, totally different from Seven Swans, Michigan, Illinois, or Carrie & Lowell. But still incredible.
Sufjan is one of very few artists who has the vision to go smooth and soft or harsh and bombastic and STILL make both of them work. Not to mention soft and bombastic or harsh and soft |
Both Seven Swans and Carrie & Lowell are great records. And I'm excited for the state records.
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Location: Chicago
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- Posted: 12/18/2020 22:45
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PossiblyinMichigan and I saw this live together, and that didn’t stop me from hating it 🙁
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PossiblyMichigan
Location: How do I meet the strangest men?
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- Posted: 12/18/2020 23:10
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| Applerill wrote: | | PossiblyinMichigan and I saw this live together, and that didn’t stop me from hating it :( |
To be honest Charli if I saw it now I probably wouldn't get half what I got then out of it. I feel very much like the resonance I once felt towards Suf's work has long since past.
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