{"id":2541,"date":"2010-09-29T05:51:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T05:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2010-10-20T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:46:09","slug":"the-age-of-odds-sufjan-rolls-the-techno-die-and-comes-up-sevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-09\/the-age-of-odds-sufjan-rolls-the-techno-die-and-comes-up-sevens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Odds&#8211;Sufjan Rolls the Techno Die and Comes Up Sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2543\" title=\"adz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/adz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/adz.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/adz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/adz-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sufjan Stevens has finally let us know what he&#8217;s been doing for five years (well, other than those BQE orchestral maneuvers in the dark&#8211;pardon us while we Stravinsky, Janacek or Reich instead).<\/p>\n<p>On October 12th, Stevens will officially release his new record, &#8220;The Age of Adz,&#8221; though as of today the digital download is available on Asthmatic Kitty as a &#8220;pre-order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a few listens to this odds-on-favorite, we hear Stevens elevating and evolving yet again, and confirming his station as one of America&#8217;s best songwriters. Yes long gone are the banjo and the whispered hush. \u00a0But in their rightful place we find a comparatively additive and adventurous sound, with marvelous machines, strings, horns aplenty, side-chaining and clips and pops. \u00a0And all coupled with riskier deliveries and deliverances. There&#8217;s even (horrors!) a cuss word or two. But despite the hubris and hub-bub, we mostly just find more magisterial melodies and revelatory vocals and lyrics. Sufjan&#8217;s back, folks, so let the confetti fall from the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the title track, <em>The Age of Adz, <\/em>and go out and buy what is likely one of the Top 5 (if not the top) records of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sufjan Stevens&#8211;<\/strong><em><strong>The Age of Adz<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;s the maker or the made, but the singer knows. \u00a0Gloria, Gloria. Glorious.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-Age-Of-Adz1.mp3|titles=03 Age Of Adz]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufjan Stevens has finally let us know what he&#8217;s been doing for five years (well, other than those BQE orchestral maneuvers in the dark&#8211;pardon us while we Stravinsky, Janacek or Reich instead). On October 12th, Stevens will officially release his new record, &#8220;The Age of Adz,&#8221; though as of today the digital download is available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}