Thread: Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
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Old 01-04-2011, 11:52 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by Buzzkill View Post
Seems like a mix between Radiohead, Fantasia (the Disney movie), Fleet Foxes, Kraftwerk and T-Pain. It is fucking epic. GET IT.
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Originally Posted by Sufjan Stevens
I mean, I think that’s beautiful. I love that synopsis. You know, we live in a culture that’s all assemblage. All art today is collage. Just listen to Kanye West’s new record – it’s not hip hop. I mean, there’s hip hop in there, but it’s also Fantasia, y’know? It’s got Kraftwerk, and it’s got vocoder all over it, and it’s very folky and very pastoral but it’s very urban – and I think that’s just the state that we live in today. It’s all about assemblage, and The Age of Adz is, I think, fundamentally an electronic record; an electronic pop record. I decided to kind of contain the electronic aesthetics to certain drum machines and certain synthesizers, but I think the arrangements on it are really sort of idiomatic and very romantic, and almost very 70s; they have these sweeping, romantic gestures and all that. So it does feel like it’s sort of all these things in one, and I think that’s just part of who I am. We live in kind of a pretty saturated media culture, and I think a lot of my music is a reflection of that.

there you go buzzkill. just finished transcribing for my article. will suss out a sound clip for you eventually ie when i can be bothered.
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