Death With Dignity 
Music Sufjan Stevens
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Death With Dignity, Should Have Known Better, Eugene, The Only Thing and NSITSOTC are all really good.
Like this album.
Like this album.
Prefer Shaking Stevens myself.
Second half of this song is great.
Fourth of July is also very good.
Not in love with the album on first listen. All a bit airy, closeted, folk Sufjan for my taste. I like my Sufjan eclectic, multi-instrumental, and flaming.
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Took me a few listens to like most of the songs. Thought the same at first.
Thought the same at first. Lacks the grand arrangements and general craziness of Adz and Delighted People. The songs are bit similar and at risk of all melting into a drab collection of Elliott Smith wannabe-ism.
Keep returning to it though, absolutely love it after a couple of listens. Death with dignity, Should have known better and All of me wants all of you are probably my favourites, although Fourth of July and No Shade are both brilliant too.
I prefer Folk Sufjan over weird experimental Sufjan; experimental is an excuse for making shit music, bit like Radiohead or its a bit like delicacies in food, a middle class excuse for eating shit thinking it makes them cool.
I have in the past voiced my opinions; I'm alone on that one put it that way.
Do you hate Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as well?
Like his new album with Angelo De Augustine quite a bit.
New album out today - dedicated to his partner who died earlier this year.
Has good reviews.
Sufjan Stevens review, Javelin: Still finding beauty in the strangest and loneliest places (msn.com)
Has good reviews.
Sufjan Stevens review, Javelin: Still finding beauty in the strangest and loneliest places (msn.com)
Will give it a listen. I still have Illinoise and Carrie & Lowell on regular rotation, but he does have such a prolific discography I can’t keep up at times.
Too many songs and albums but Carrie & Lowell is my favourite.
I guess this is him officially coming out too as a result of the dedication. Dude has been though a shitload this year with his own illness too
Will give it a listen when I can find a nice quiet time to give it my full attention. Love Sufjan
Yes to both - it’s been a rough year for him.
I always thought he was bisexual (still could be) but thought it was an open secret given some of the lyrics in some of his songs (To Be Alone With You, for example).
It's certainly getting glowing reviews. It's also quite an accessible album, one the people who liked albums like Carrie & Lowell and Illinoise can probably jump back in on.
There was good stuff on The Ascension but at 80min it was definitely too bloated. And I didn't even try Convocations, as I'm never going to be in the mood for a 49 track instrumental album.
There was good stuff on The Ascension but at 80min it was definitely too bloated. And I didn't even try Convocations, as I'm never going to be in the mood for a 49 track instrumental album.
Yeah enjoying Javelin. It's good shit.
So sad, rest in peace
I love Sufjan. I think he's the best indie artist since Elliott Smith.