| Stevens, Sufjan / Age Of Adz, The |
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| Album: | Age Of Adz, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Stevens, Sufjan | Added: | Oct 2010 | |
| Label: | Asthmatic Kitty | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-10-09 | Pull Date: | 2011-12-11 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 11 | Nov 27 | Nov 20 | Nov 13 | Nov 6 | Oct 30 | Oct 23 | Oct 16 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 17, 2023: | Pest Control Futile Devices | 4. | Nov 09, 2018: | Tell Me I'm Pretty Futile Devices | |
| 2. | Feb 08, 2022: | Butter in the Pan Age Of Adz | 5. | Nov 02, 2018: | Tell Me I'm Pretty I Walked | |
| 3. | Feb 19, 2020: | soft boiled Too Much | 6. | Oct 26, 2018: | Tell Me I'm Pretty I Want To Be Well |
| Album Review |
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| Kyle Vandenberg Reviewed 2011-09-29 | ||
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Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz: The Detroit indie darling returns with his sixth studio effort. Interesting juxtaposition of synths/progressive noise with classical instruments in many of the tracks. Electronic folk? I think that’s the closest I can come to pinning a genre on this. FCC warning on track 10. Most of this deserves airplay, but first try 1, 2, 3, 6, 11. 1) Soft crooning vocals, high-pitched piano riff, clock-like guitar. 2) Industrial sound at the beginning, then soft vocals layered on top. Really cool contrast of sweet synths/vocals with random tech noise. Space sounds/orchestra ending. 3) Title track. Flashy orchestra opening and choruses. Lamenting vocals, loud strings, deep horns. A long electronic folk ballad. 4) Slower, calmer, with echo-y vocals and muted percussion. 5) Doleful piano and vocal chorus, with Sufjan crooning. 6) Scales of vocals, horns, and flute, with synths in the background. 7) A wide mix of noises and sound, with echo-y, strange vocals. 8) Synth horn solos and a chorus of vocals. Very sing-songy. 9) Climactic percussion, grand vocals, interspersed with whispered crooning. 10) FCC “fucking” Wildly fluctuating flute, a hint of electric guitar, and exciting synths. One of the best tracks on the album, but sadly invalidated for airplay because of multiple droppings of the F-bomb… 11) A 25 minute-long epic. Everything from wild electric guitars, to falsetto female vocals, to horn synths, to orchestral string sections, to auto-tuned Sufjan vocals. Especially if you have a super-long, late-night show, this is stuff for you. Kyle Vandenberg | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Futile Devices | 6. | Get Real Get Right | |||
| 2. | Too Much | 7. | Bad Communication | |||
| 3. | Age Of Adz | 8. | Vesuvius | |||
| 4. | I Walked | 9. | All For Myself | |||
| 5. | Now That I'm Older | 10. | I Want To Be Well | |||
| 11. | Impossible Soul | |||||