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Old 10.11.2010, 02:50 PM   #1
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He pulled a Kid A.
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Old 10.11.2010, 03:47 PM   #2
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In a good way? Or a "Radiohead already did it" kind of way?
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Old 10.11.2010, 04:55 PM   #3
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I loved Illinoise and I really admire his obvious talent/ambition, but I quickly got tired of the choirboy/banjo plucking shtick. But halfway through sampling this new mutherfucker, I'm floored. (ie Kid A in a good way.....not very similar to the actual Kid A, but a similar "move", if that makes sense.) I'll have much more to say about this after I (snicker....I'm so old fashioned) pick up the cd tomorrow.
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Old 10.11.2010, 05:39 PM   #4
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He did that along time ago with Enjoy your Rabbit...
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Old 10.11.2010, 06:48 PM   #5
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He did that along time ago with Enjoy your Rabbit...

Well, that was very different from this.
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Old 10.12.2010, 07:59 AM   #6
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Age of Adz replaces the sweeping strings and horns with bloops and bleeps, not that different just a little more electronic, still the same melodies you'd expect from Sufjan Stevens, like I said in the new release thread, he uses autotune.
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Old 10.12.2010, 11:14 PM   #7
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Yeah, it's funny that the autotune seems to piss so many off. In my 3 runs thru this magnificent album so far, I see that aspect as an "artistic choice" which actually enhances the proceedings. I mean, Christ, Lennon did that thing in Tomorrow Never Knows. Was that a bad thing?

I do agree though that the electronics are "flourishes" and not some kind of Metal Machine Music redifine. It still very much sounds like a Sufjan album.

Just like Kid A was very obviously Radiohead, from the first 30sec. OKC be damned.
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Old 10.13.2010, 12:23 AM   #8
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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...he-age-of-adz/
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Old 12.27.2010, 03:09 PM   #9
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Just want to say that I quickly got tired of this, it's a bit of a mess, but the "EP" preceding it, All Delighted People, is ace imho, and it got bad reviews everywhere it seems.
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I had friends going crazy over this album. But it just sounded like really long versions of his shit I had already heard and grown tired of, with, as someone else deftly put it, with more bleeps and bloops.
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my brain can't comprehend this mess of noise. it sounds sort of nice i guess
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I had friends going crazy over this album. But it just sounded like really long versions of his shit I had already heard and grown tired of, with, as someone else deftly put it, with more bleeps and bloops.

That's fair, I think. At first I really loved it, on the surface, but there didn't seem to be much beneath the surface, knowhatimean?

And then someone gave me that "EP" (60mins long) for Xmas, and I groaned a bit, remembering all the bad reviews.....and I just don't fuckin get it! Most under-rated release of 2010 for me. It's beautiful. The songs on All Delighted People are stuck in my brain. I still can't get beneath the surface of Adz....it's too cluttered and claustrophobic.
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is there anyone on this board who doesn't think this man is as appealing as a large mound of faeces emanating air borne ebola spores?

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