Sufjan Stevens Announces New Album
I feel like I’ve been talking quite a bit about Sufjan Stevens lately, so why not continue the trend? He has just announced that he will be releasing a full-length album in October by the name of The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds). The record will be available on CD and MP3 on October 12th, and a double LP will be in stores on November 9th. It is available for preorder here for the next two weeks, and then you’ll receive an early MP3 download of the album on September 28th.
His label, Asthmatic Kitty, writes of the album:
The album relinquishes the songwriter’s former story-telling techniques for more basic proclamations unhindered by concepts: there are few narrative conceits or character sketches, no historical panoramas, no civic gestures, no scene, setting, conflict, resolution or denouement. Rather, the themes developed here are neither historical nor polemical, but rather personal and primal: love, sex, death, disease, illness, anxiety and suicide all figure in the songwriting.
Anybody else as excited about this album as I am?
