Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz – 2 LP set

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Artist:Sufjan Stevens|Label:Asthmatic Kitty |Format: 2xLP |Genre:Rock | LP condition: Mint | Jacket condition: Sealed

Sufjan Stevens
The Age of Adz
Asthmatic Kitty 077 – re-issue 2 LP set in a thick gatefold jacket

The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds) is Sufjan Stevens first full-length collection of original songs since 2005s 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 songwriters former tools of the trade: namely, acoustic instruments that accompany an expansive narrative scope. While the sounds on this record are distinctly artificial (drums machines and analog synthesizers reign supreme), the proclamations of the songs are unabashedly visceral, sung loudly, with a backdrop of insistent orchestration. The result is an album that is perhaps more vibrant, more primary, and more explicit than anything Sufjan has done before, incorporating themes that are neither historical nor civic, but rather personal and primal (if even a little juvenile). Love, sex, death, disease, illness, anxiety, and suicide make appearances in an aggressive (and sometimes danceable) tapestry of electronic pop, conveyed with the urgency, immediacy, and anxiety of primary colors.

Including
Futile Devices
Too Much
Age of Adz
I Walked
Now That I’m Older
Get Real Get RightBad Communication
VesuviusAll For MyselfI Want to be WellImpossible Soul (all of side 4)

SEALED NEW re-issue 2 ALBUM set w/ Gatefold jacket