{"id":10134,"date":"2012-04-02T07:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2012-04-02T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:58:41","slug":"sufjan-stevens-the-nationals-bryce-dessner-and-nico-muhly-perform-new-song-at-musicnow-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-04\/sufjan-stevens-the-nationals-bryce-dessner-and-nico-muhly-perform-new-song-at-musicnow-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufjan Stevens, The National&#8217;s Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly Perform New Song at MusicNOW Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last night of <strong>Bryce Dessner&#8217;s<\/strong> annual<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicnowfestival.org\/\"> <strong>MusicNOW Festival<\/strong><\/a> in Cincinnati, <strong>Dessner, Sufjan Stevens<\/strong>, and composer <strong>Nico Muhly<\/strong> collaborated on a new song entitled <em><strong>Venus<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Check it out below with trombone choir, string quartet, and drums\/percussion\/drum machine backing.\u00a0 Everything sounds sweet until <strong>4:14<\/strong> when Stevens inexplicably switches his vocals to the vocoded mic, and we are left to pound our head against the wall in dismay.\u00a0 Stevens has recently become enamored with the vocoder, which in our humble opinion has <strong>no earthly value<\/strong>.\u00a0 Less than none.\u00a0 <strong>Dear Sufjan:\u00a0 Lose the vocoder NOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MusicNOW 2012 - Venus by Sufjan, Nico, and Bryce\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4SNHDK_amD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last night of Bryce Dessner&#8217;s 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