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![]() Live Blue Bucket is transcendent. As it was escalating toward the end, I remember thinking, "if this is what death feels like, I'd be fine with it."
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New Sufjan Stevens EP available now
Djohariah.
__________________Good Lord, what a song. Technically "All Delighted People" is an EP, but I think of it as an album and I can confidently say it's my favorite. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Fuck you.
It's tremendous. I think it counts as an album, it's an hour long.
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New Sufjan Stevens EP available now
I've still never seen Bad. I've still never seen Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl. I've still never seen Casimir Pulaski Day. Fuck.
Otherwise, that was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I don't like Age of Adz, at all, but those tracks are necessary to balancing the existential terror of the Carrie & Lowell material and the live arrangements are way better. I usually find Too Much annoying, but it slots in great. Vesuvius is still kind of a slog for me but the visuals were nice. I Want to Be Well was as good as has been described. Impossible Soul--->Chicago was utterly incredible. Same with Come On! Feel the Illinoise! which deserves to be held in the same regard as Chicago, honestly. I Should Have Known Better and Fourth of July were beefed up with amazing outros. Concerning the UFO Sighting was a nice setlist surprise. Only complaints were Sufjan ending 10 minutes before the curfew (this is actually pretty lame of him, it made the whole show feel rushed) and replacing Casimir Pulaski Day with a fun but not overly great cover of Kiss. I'm not a fan of artists doing covers in general, so it's nothing against Sufjan. He meant well and it fit the vibe of the show. Everything else was sublime. The Hollywood Bowl just prevents anything spontaneous from happening because of the curfew and wine and cheese crowds. |
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The Male
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Adding to my last post, I think he seems to be attempting to transition out of the Carrie & Lowell era with a light touch and sense of humor. The current show is very powerful, skillfully sequenced and choreographed. It's veering towards the positive end of his songwriting as well, which makes sense considering this portion of the tour has been so festival heavy.
Sufjan claimed this was the last show of the tour, so it serves to reason that we were given a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel and he seemed to imply that despite the thematic heft of his writing, he wanted to keep the show moving. The Carrie & Lowell tour's first couple of legs were likely very taxing on him emotionally and though I'm disappointed that I missed out on one of my all-time favorite albums being played more or less in full, I can understand what he's been doing with the setlist as of late. |
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![]() Honestly I don't think Chicago would rank in my personal top 10 for Sufjan. It is a great song but there are so many others I've come to love more than it, and Feel the Illinoise is one of them, awesome song, one I haven't got in the four times I've seen him live. I'm immensely jealous of that plus the Adz tracks (although the title track is a lot better than Too Much) but I can at least attest to the Carrie & Lowell tracks being stellar. Casimir Pulaski Day isn't reeeeally a regular I don't think? I've heard it a couple of times, it's lovely though. Incredible song. However I'd be much more upset at not getting Blue Bucket of Gold; up until this recent pivot out of C&L it was closing the main sets. It's over 10 minutes and is indescribably awesome, as others here can attest to. Quote:
Will be really, really interesting to see where he goes next.
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That being said, hearing it tonight, my arm around Ashley, the two of us with tears in our eyes listening to a song that had been a soundtrack to so many significant life decisions as Sufjan sings about the mistakes he's made in his own life ("and continue to make!", he blurted out with self-deprecation) - that's a moment I'll not soon forget. It was a marker of time. And you know what's really great? It wasn't that acoustic version he was doing last year, which I enjoy but feel robs the sensation of movement, excitement and progress out of the song. Tonight it was an explosive, life-affirming take that slotted in perfectly alongside Impossible Soul, similar to this one from Coachella earlier this year: |
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I can't say I'm huge on the song Chicago, but the version I saw last year was spectacular: an acid jazz type freak-out that emerged out of a wild, extended synth solo.
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![]() I'm extremely jealous. I've only seen nice-enough tame acoustic versions, which is probably partly responsible for my indifference towards it.
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I've admittedly never listened to a live Sufjan show before and I want to hear a good one. Any recommendations for good bootlegs or YouTube recordings?
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I don't know of any that exist.
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A DVD of the C&L small-venue shows would be a blessing.
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Sufjan Stevens composed songs for new film ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Not a lot of details in the article, but I assume it's in the vein of the BQE album, which is an ok listen but not a major work. Still nice to hear some new music from him.
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New album out June 9
__________________![]() Previously-teased Planetarium record (in order: Sufjan Stevens / Nico Muhly (???) / Bryce Dessner / James McAlister (Sufjan's C&L drummer) is coming out June 9. 01 Neptune 02 Jupiter 03 Halley’s Comet 04 Venus 05 Uranus 06 Mars 07 Black Energy 08 Sun 09 Tides 10 Moon 11 Pluto 12 Kuiper Belt 13 Black Hole 14 Saturn 15 In the Beginning 16 Earth 17 Mercury First taste is an absolute banger. Sufjan sings, I'm assuming he will be singer on the whole thing, I don't know who Nico Muhly is. It's called "Saturn", it's up on streaming services. It sounds like Eiffel 65, but not shit. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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