However, Sufjan and Peck debuted an entirely new balletic work last year called Everywhere We Go. Essentially you can listen to recorded versions of those arrangements, which are excellent, on Run Rabbit Run, performed by the Osso String Quartet. The first was Year of the Rabbit which contained newly orchestrated arrangements of selected works from the electronic instrumental album Enjoy Your Rabbit. Stevens has composed two works for ballet, both of them choreographed by Justin Peck. Who knows, maybe I can stoke the fires enough and help them someday see the light of day? Maybe Subaru himself will read this and realize all the ways he has yet to bless the world. Here's my list of them with some brief descriptions. As a fan it is immensely satisfying to hear him singing gorgeous songs again, even if they are all maudlin contemplations on death and loss and a past we can never change.Īnd yet yet yet I am still very much hoping for these other works to find an official release. In fact, it might be the most conventional album he has ever released. It's the most conventional work he has released in years. Over the past few years he has had a number of projects quietly hovering in and out of the public eye (and no, I'm not talking about another much pined after but increasingly unlikely 50 States album!), projects I have expected him to release is some official form.Īnd yet, I was incredibly happy to hear about Carrie & Lowell. The concept was not the surprise-no, the shock came in the fact that I expected Sufjan's next release to be one of an assortment of possibilities.

The whole concept and even existence of the album seemed to come from out of nowhere, b ut Sufjan can do whatever he wants and I love him for that. I wasn't disappointed, but I was surprised.

Whether it was through Pitchfork, Stereogum, or Asthmatic Kitty's Facebook page I cannot remember, but the album cover's image just struck me-a simple faded and perhaps crumpled photo of a middle-aged man and woman.Ĭarrie and Lowell? oh. I have to admit when I first found out about Sufjan Stevens' new album Carrie & Lowell I was taken a bit by surprise. There are literally entire worlds of unreleased Sufjan music.

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