Posted August 20, 201014 yr Sufjan Stevens // All Delighted People EP http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/sufjan____.jpg 01 All Delighted People (Original Version) 02 Enchanting Ghost 03 Heirloom 04 From the Mouth of Gabriel 05 The Owl and the Tanager 06 All Delighted People (Classic Rock Version) 07 Arnika 08 Djohariah The EP, All Delighted People, is built around two different versions of Sufjan’s long-form epic ballad "All Delighted People," a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon’s "Sounds of Silence." Sounds delightful, yes! The song was originally workshopped (oh we hate making workshop a verb, but time is money!) on Sufjan’s previous tour in the fall of 2009. Other songs on the EP include the 17-minute guitar jam-for-single-mothers "Djohariah," and the gothic piano ballad "The Owl and the Tanager," a live-show mainstay (and Debbie Downer if you ask us; what’s it doing on a "Delighted" EP?). (Via Asthmatic Kitty) So unexpected. Absolutely amazing. He really needs to tour here after the US. :wub:
August 20, 201014 yr I really love most of it but I'm not totally sold on the classic rock version of All Delighted People and 17 minutes stretches Djohariah way past it's welcome to these ears. The rest of it is beautiful though :wub:
August 20, 201014 yr http://www.mobiletechworld.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/u-turn.jpg I now love the classic rock version too. :D
August 20, 201014 yr Idk if I can forgive him yet for the farce that was the 50 states project. But I might have to :kink:.
August 21, 201014 yr I'm 6 minutes through Djohariah and i'm not sure how there can possibly another 11 minutes of it left...
August 21, 201014 yr I think there was a natural end for Djohariah at around the 9-10 minute mark. Does seem to be needlessly long.
September 11, 201014 yr Author NME: Toying with people’s emotions is a habit reserved only for the most dreaded coves, and given Sufjan Stevens' beautiful, heartbreaking back catalogue, we didn’t think he practiced that sort of hot’n’cold tactic. However, as quickly as our hearts nearly exploded when he put up a new, hour-long EP for $5 download last week, they promptly deflated as it transpired to be one of his worst releases to date. The title track is 11 minutes of painfully celestial balladeering self-indulgence, a mess of standard-Sufjan jittering flutes mixed with the most offensive noise from his best-avoided early electronic period. Worst of all, it appears again as an eight-minute ‘Classic Rock Version’, flabby with noodling banjo in the vein of much of the rest of the record. This being an EP with such self-consciously excessive titles suggests – hopefully – that this is Sufjan excavating the contents of his famously fraught mind, leaving him ready to start afresh on a proper, better focused album. 3 out of 10 Lols.
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