Listen to a new song off of Sufjan Steven’s new album, The Age of Adz
After dropping a new EP out of nowhere last week called All Delighted People, indie-folk shaman Sufjan Stevens has announced that his first full-length in five years, The Age of Adz, will be released on October 12.
The new album, to quote Stevens, is going to sound like this:
We can say it shows an extensive use of electronics (banjos and acoustic guitars give way to drum machines and analog synthesizers), and an obsession with cosmic fantasies (space, heaven, aliens, love), to create an explicit pop-song extravaganza, augmented by heavy orchestration, and maybe even a few danceable moments. Enjoy Your Rabbit meets the BQE. But with songs. Verse, chorus, bridge, backbeat. Gated reverb. Space echo. Get your boogey on.
Name-dropping Sufjan’s notoriously difficult Chinese Zodiac-themed album, The Year of the Rabbit, makes one…ah…apprehensive. But don’t get too freaked out. Here’s a taste of the new album: a track called “I Walked.”
