![]() ![]() I like the weird heft of it - a 60 minute EP! - and the through-line it maintains from Sufjan's recent public statements to the musical execution of the recording. ![]() (Sidenote: Do people still make mixtapes?) Check it out here: I like way he released it: an intentionally desultory approach wherein it just kind of popped up on a wonky, semi-established internet site with a rough hewn but charming cover, the kind of image an ambitious teenage kid might cut & paste on the cover of a mix tape or CD. I'm only a few listens into his new release, an EP titled All Delighted People, but it excites me on a number of levels. It meandered where, before, it was compulsively engaging. Philosophically it was intriguing the music that resulted felt a bit forced. I had some ambivalence about the small venue tour Sufjan went on last fall - the music's Liberace-like indulgence, the way his band consciously abandoned structure but then, perhaps, overshot that effort and abandoned good taste. ![]()
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