The Age of Adz (LP)

 
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Sufjan Stevens
The Age of Adz (LP)

[ Asthmatic Kitty / 2 LP ]

Release Date: Saturday 11 September 2010

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The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens' first full-length collection of original songs since 2005's civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its preoccupation with Sufjan himself. The album relinquishes the songwriter's former story-telling techniques for more primal proclamations unhindered by concepts: there are few narrative conceits or character sketches; there are no historical panoramas, no civic gestures, no literary maneuvers, no expository illustrations drenched in cultural theory, no scene, setting, conflict, resolution, or denouement.

Stevens has stripped away the fabric of narrative artifice for a more primitive approach, emphasizing instinct over craft. The result is an album that is perhaps more vibrant, more primary, and more explicit than anything else he's done before. The themes developed here are neither historical nor polemical, but rather personal and primal (if even a little juvenile): love, sex, death, disease, illness, anxiety, and suicide make appearances in a tapestry of electronic pop songs that convey a sense of urgency, immediacy, and anxiety as never before seen in this songwriter.

Tracks:

Side A:
Futile Devices
Too Much
Age of Adz

Side B:
I Walked
Now That I'm Older
Get Real Get Right
Bad Communication

Side C:
Vesuvius
All for Myself
I Want To Be Well

Side D:
Impossible Soul