Sufjan Stevens & Prog Rock
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Topic: Sufjan Stevens & Prog Rock
Posted By: Adams Bolero
Subject: Sufjan Stevens & Prog Rock
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 13:20
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Sufjan has always been a bit of an outsider in the popular music scene. In a market saturated with manufactured rubbish his music has always stood apart. I regard his albums ‘’Come On Feel The Illinoise!’’ and ‘’Michigan’’ as absolute masterpieces but his new album takes him further away from his Indie heritage and nearer to a experimental sound that isn’t too far away from Prog Rock. Indeed some articles have linked his new sound to Prog Rock as you can read here: Case in point is the 25 minute opus ‘’Impossible Soul’’. A musical epic that journeys through many different themes and Sufjan describes it as a ‘’intense, emotional, psychotherapy experiment.” Well hear it is for you to decide: ------------- ''Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.'' - Albert Camus |
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 14:06
I can't wait to hear his new album, thanks for the heads up 
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Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 15:44
| I don't really like Sufjan Stevens, Enjoy Your Rabbit is a pretty good album though. But his other stuff is pretty boring imo. |
Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 00:39
His latest album is.. Well, its alot of fun. And its a bit of a grower. But I get the feeling ol Sufjan is about a step or two from losing it completely 
I'm a bit of a fanboy of his though. Honestly, I can't tell if this album is really prog or not. Sure it mashes up a bunch of genres and is experimental, but its all steeped pretty heavily in electronic and pop (as well as indie and folk, naturally)
Oh man I guess I just need to go listen to it again. ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 01:25
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Sufjan Stevens and Bonnie "Prine" Billie are two of a very few "new" cats that I dig.....don't know if it's prog, but that's never bothered me in the slightest. Highly recommended. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 19:45
I listened to his new album and I can't recall when was the last time I was SO disappointed. Illinoise grew on me very fast and I had really high hopes. Not only that he sailed as far as possible away from prog-like artsy indie-folk towards indietronica, but the quality I found to be very low and his autotune "epic" an abomination bellow its MTV soul-pop counterparts. 
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Posted By: rpe9p
Date Posted: November 01 2010 at 21:39
| I didnt like the posted song very much, but I love Illinois. Sufjan is not prog but he is still great |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: November 02 2010 at 04:26
| I think even he has said that that album about the motorway or whatever was a bit crap and he kind of regrets it. I loved Illinois (who didn't) and was disappointed to find out that the 50 states album thing was a joke that the music media didn't get rather than something he actually intended to do. |
Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: November 02 2010 at 05:45
------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
harmonium.ro wrote:Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: November 02 2010 at 06:28
It's only been out for 20 days. Too early to make that kind of observations, isn't it? A grower is something that grows on you over the YEARS, not days. ------------- 
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Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 02:35
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^ obviously a grower is a subjective term. But the album sounded terrible on the first few listens, then I gave it a week. then it sounded better, and its sounding better each time since then. Besides I think its possible to tell when an album will grow on you sometimes (although I do know a few albums that took a few months to a year to like)
Or maybe being 19 I just havn't experienced that kind of a 'grower' before  ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 10:25
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WOOOT love age of adz ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: pianoman
Date Posted: November 11 2012 at 10:45
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I think Sufjan Stevens should be reconsidered for addition. His music is much more "progressive" (as opposed to "prog") than a huge amount of bands currently listed. By far. Illinois is proof of that. Sorry, just my opinion as a younger listener. Also, why does the prog community not get along with the indie community (im just generalizing here)? Both groups would practically be the same if they lived in the same decade. |