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All Delighted People EP
Sufjan Stevens
Just Reviewed
by J. Edward Keyes
The first proper collection of Sufjan Stevens songs in five years starts small: just Stevens's voice trembling over a gently lowing choir. It gets bigger eventually, adding strings and horns and timpani and gradually expanding to an 11-minute opus that takes on American superficiality while extensively quoting Simon & Garfunkel. How's that for a comeback?
Stevens always had a thing for grand entrances. He owned the early part of the '00s owing mostly to two records, the small, autobiographical Michigan and the bigger, conceptual Illinois, t...
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Stevens always had a thing for grand entrances. He owned the early part of the '00s owing mostly to two records, the small, autobiographical Michigan and the bigger, conceptual Illinois, t...
