Sufjan Stevens announces new full-length album release, 'The Age of Adz'

 

Stevens has alluded to abandoning his “States project,” in which he wrote about specific history and context of each of the United states, which included Michigan and Illinois. According to a press release, there is no concept behind this 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,” adding that the themes explored are “personal and primal.”

 

“Adz” – pronounced “odds” – is a reference to late outsider artist Royal Robertson, whose art will grace the album art; Stevens used his apocalyptic and fantastical work as “an idealistic springboard” in making the album.

 

While “All Delighted People” had its own lengthy tracks, the closer on “Adz” seems like it will take the cake: “Impossible Soul” is marked with a 25:35 duration.

 

Click here to listen to “All Delighted People” and to purchase.

 

 

 

Here is the tracklist for Sufjan Stevens' "The Age of Adz":
 

1. Futile Devices - 2:11
2. Too Much - 6:44
3. Age of Adz - 8:00
4. I Walked - 5:01
5. Now That I'm Older - 4:56
6. Get Real Get Right - 5:10
7. Bad Communication - 2:24
8. Vesuvius - 5:26
9. All for Myself - 2:55
10. I Want To Be Well - 6:27
11. Impossible Soul - 25:35

 

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