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Sufjan Stevens // All Delighted People EP

 

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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:

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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:

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I now love the classic rock version too. :D

Idk if I can forgive him yet for the farce that was the 50 states project.

 

But I might have to :kink:.

I'm 6 minutes through Djohariah and i'm not sure how there can possibly another 11 minutes of it left...
I think there was a natural end for Djohariah at around the 9-10 minute mark. Does seem to be needlessly long.
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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.

3/10? :/ The EP is incredible! Gosh, another proof NME is horse $h!t.

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