Originally written by Luke Slater · 26 August 2010
So, just days after surprising us with the immediate release of a new EP Sufjan Stevens is giving us another pleasant update, now announcing the release of another full-length record, his first since the opus that was Come On Now Feel The Illinoise*.
The new one is called The Age of Adz and, we are reliably told, is pronounced "the age of odds". Whatever the hell that is. The artwork - fairly impressive - is below, as is the tracklisting. It all builds up to a 25-minute final track, by the way. It comes out on October 11 through Asthmatic Kitty, of course.
• Futile Devices
• Too Much
• Age of Adz
• I Walked
• Now That I'm Older
• Get Real Get Right
• Bad Communication
• Vesuvius - 5:26
• All for Myself - 2:55
• I Want To Be Well - 6:27
• Impossible Soul - 25:35
The album contains lots of themes. Let's just say it's about many things, as you'd expect.
*We know it's not really called that, but humour us, OK?