All songs considered the trio talk about the grand mysteries of the universe that helped inspire their celestial. Its sufjan stevens way or the highway interview magazine. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the united states. Sufjan stevens, timo andres iv from the decalogue official audio youtube. The track is one of stevens most popular songs, and he usually ends his live shows with a version of this song. He recently offered some of his thoughts on the orders of earth and life around us in an interview for npr. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. Sufjan stevens dishes on celebrate brooklyn youtube sufjan stevens death, reincarnation and trump adelaide 2016 duration. One of the things i like best about sufjan stevens is that it feels like hes from another time or planet.
The first, love yourself is based on a sketch stevens originally wrote and recorded in 1996. Sufjan stevens, however, is not only one of the most compelling new voices in american music. While the sounds on this record are distinctly artificial drums machines and analog synths reign supreme, the proclamations of the songs are unabashedly visceral, sung loudly, with a backdrop of. Sufjan stevens albums described by spongebob youtube. Top 10 sufjan stevens songs that will give you chills. The song tells the semiautobiographical story of a young man on a road trip, and his youthful idealism. The album follows on the heels of greetings from michigan as the second installment of his ambitious 50 states project, and it offers one mans view of the land of lincoln, starting down in highland with the possibility of alien life and making the rounds before finishing up in the sands of little egypt. Sufjan stevens biography artist profile of sufjan stevens. Sufjan stevens shares new instrumental composition iv. Through his record label asthmatic kitty records, stevens released his first two albums a sun came and enjoy your rabbit in 2000 and 2001.
Sufjan stevens, nico muhly and bryce dessner on creating planetarium. Nico muhly brought the trombones, bryce dessner the guitars, and sufjan stevens the finelyshaped buttocks and the result was a concept album about outer space via ancient greece. Sufjan stevens is one of americas most restlessly creative musicians, his 2005 album, illinoise, a dizzying masterpiece. He has released a total of seven solo studio albums as well as multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Sufjan stevens is a singersongwriter currently living in new york city. However, you can still listen with the spotify or apple music playlist at the bottom of the page. Lynsey hanley talks to sufjan stevens music the guardian.
Sufjan stevens planetarium charts a godsustained cosmos. The age of adz pronounced odds is sufjan stevens first fulllength collection of original songs since 2005s conceptual pop opus illinois. Sufjan stevens is a songwriter, composer, and multiinstrumentalist who harbors a conceptual, thematic approach to making albums. So stevens broke with his own rule, and went further by providing not one but two songs for the soundtrack to call me by your name. Sufjan stevens is a singersongwriter living in new york city. Lynsey hanley talks to sufjan stevens, who plans to document the whole of the us in song and has just made one of the albums of the year lynsey. His fifth studio album, it features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the u. Stevens has also received academy award and grammy award nominations his debut album a sun came was released in 1999 on the asthmatic kitty label. Spokesman for sanity with his collaborative new album planetarium out soon, the sage singersongwriter talks about the attack on. We have disclosed these things in secret, likes and dislikes, behind doors with locks, our lonely rooms, our messy desks, our empty hearts, our sudden bursts of energy, our sudden bouts of depression. Watch sufjan stevens perform the entirety of carrie and. I recently caught up with sufjan stevens by email to talk about his latest record, illinois. Implementing 25 instruments, played mostly by sufjan himself, a twohanded horn section, string quartet and small choir, illinois conjures up images of danny elfman conducting a gilbert and sullivan company, a minimalist ensemble, and the marion catholic marching band on a windswept prairie football field.
Watch sufjan stevens, nico muhly and bryce dessner play planetarium track mercury in a manhattan studio, some of the musicians behind planetarium play the albums beautiful closing track. Sufjan stevens albums described by spongebob ryan brady. Sufjan stevens chicago the politician soundtrack theme song official audio duration. The brooklynbased multiinstrumental singersongwriterand now comic book writercomes off as being far removed from the everyday in a way that speaks to either an incredible discipline or admirable disregard. The music i write is entrenched in traditions of folk music, but it has very grand, romantic aspirations that more closely resemble. Sufjan stevens goes to saturn with bryce dessner, nico. Based on a composition originally performed at the brooklyn academy of music, planetarium is a song cycle inspired by our solar system and a little bit beyond, with works cocomposed with the nationals bryce dessner, composer nico muhly, and drummer james mcalister. The npr music team met muhly, dessner and stevens at reservoir studios in manhattan to capture a video of the trio performing the song. The ep, all delighted people, is built around two different versions of sufjans longform epic ballad all delighted people, a dramatic homage to the apocalypse, existential ennui, and paul simons sounds of silence. Sufjan stevens shares hushed piano instrumental iv.
Sufjan stevens interview on morning becomes eclectic kcrw part 4 of performance. This summer, things seemed to only get worse for fans when stevens gave sporadic interviews implying that he might retire from music all. Sufjan stevens, timo andres iv from the decalogue official audio if playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. How sufjan stevens subverts the stigma of christian music. He talks to dave eggers about how difficult it was to make.
I n the spring of 2012, at the barbican hall in london, sufjan stevens, nico muhly and bryce dessner performed a new collaborative work they. American singersongwriter sufjan stevens has released nine studio albums including one with additional artists, thirteen extended plays ep, fifteen singles including one as a featured artist, eight promotional singles, and eight music videos. Sufjan stevens 10 of the best a master of what he called the strummystrum acoustic guitar song, stevens affecting music tackles issues as tricky as abandonment, death and christmas. Sufjan stevens is celebrating pride month which begins june 1 with the release of two new songs. Sufjan stevens interview on call me by your name deadline. Sufjan stevens, nico muhly and bryce dessner on creating npr. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. Forget the longabandoned 50 states project, sufjan stevens is going to space. Here he talks about his hippie childhood, his wilfully disorienting new. Sufjan stevens has been posting a series of notes online in recent weeks addressing the american political situation through the lens of his christian worldview. How sufjan stevens subverts the stigma of christian music the genre has had a bad reputation since the 1960s, but the singersongwriter succeeds by focusing on aesthetics over evangelism. The 2015 sufjan stevens tour for his crushingly sad and beautiful. Hanging from scaffolding on an inprogress luxury condo near sufjan stevens office studio in brooklyn, a huge sign promises to preserve the history but change the meaning.