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Sufjan 2015

  • 02-03-2015 10:12AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭


    Sufjan has a new album out this month, is there any word of a european tour?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭IamNotNumber


    illnoise great album but he can't live off that forever..he has got very boring to me with his last few albums/songs ..illnoise hinted at awesome but he never delivered subsequently (thats imo obviously!).Hopes for this album remain muted.Still would be interesting to see live,definitely has the talent.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    illnoise great album but he can't live off that forever..he has got very boring to me with his last few albums/songs ..illnoise hinted at awesome but he never delivered subsequently (thats imo obviously!).Hopes for this album remain muted.Still would be interesting to see live,definitely has the talent.

    Wouldn't agree with that at all. The Age of Adz was brilliant.....great gig at the Olympia a few years back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Yeah, he's pre Illinois stuff was great which he seems to be returning to.

    Illinois and its subsequent tour was fantastic and maybe a career high point.

    And as Gonzovision has said, Age of Adz was also great and that tour was as unique a live experience as I can remember.

    While all these phases might not be everyones cup of tea, you have to admire Sufjan for mixing things up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭alwayswright


    Just listened to the new album today. Lyrically its beautiful, musically its similar to John Wayne Gacy from his Illinoise album. Its up there with Seven Swans for me, just hoping now for an Irish tour date!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    Just listened to the new album today. Lyrically its beautiful, musically its similar to John Wayne Gacy from his Illinoise album. Its up there with Seven Swans for me, just hoping now for an Irish tour date!

    Oh brilliant its out, on its way to me now, awesome


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    Oh brilliant its out, on its way to me now, awesome

    The quality of the leak is so awful it's killing me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭alwayswright


    The quality of the leak is so awful it's killing me
    Sound quality? Personally I found it fine, but I wouldn't be much of an audiophile. Some background humming noises are intentional throughout various tracks, could you be mistaking that for poor quality perhaps?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Will give it a listen now...Excited :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,782 ✭✭✭eyeball kid


    When is the album actually out?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    March 31st


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    Sound quality? Personally I found it fine, but I wouldn't be much of an audiophile. Some background humming noises are intentional throughout various tracks, could you be mistaking that for poor quality perhaps?
    No its when I put my soundboard on full blast it's just terrible, the flac can't be too far away though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    No its when I put my soundboard on full blast it's just terrible, the flac can't be too far away though

    Or you could, you know, buy it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,987 ✭✭✭Kerrigooney


    mosstin wrote: »
    Or you could, you know, buy it.

    Maybe he will when it's,you know,actually released.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Hope everyone is enjoying it as much as I am. Beautiful album....Is a tour date too much to ask for?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Hope everyone is enjoying it as much as I am. Beautiful album....Is a tour date too much to ask for?

    He's doing a few dates in the US in April so no doubt a European tour is imminent. Beautiful record. 'The Only Thing' is superb. Great interview with him here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭FaulknersFav


    Oh I didn't know this was out!! Sweet. Thanks for the interview too, a great read.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭FaulknersFav


    All of me wants you! The lyrics are fantastic. Fck I love this man! Please let him come for a visit with this.


  • Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This is an amazing Album..
    I've never seen him live, I really hope he does a show here...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 JohnjoWex


    Amazing Album.. the fulll album is streaming on the guardian website (can't post a link yet)

    I think it's on NPR also...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 JohnjoWex


    Album is amazing

    It's streaming on the Guardian website (new user so can't post the link unfortunately)


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    On spotify now, for anyone that still hasn't heard it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    It's an absolute peach of an album, might already be my favourite of his.

    Bit surprised how much hate I've read for the Age of Adz in the last few weeks, I was completely under the impression that that album grew on everyone as much as it did on me. I've hardly ever listened to the final track but there's tons of great stuff on it. The guy's got an amazing catalogue imo and has somehow managed to find a balance between having really high quality albums and releasing tons of experimental or novel stuff.



    2015's already been a way better year for albums than 2014 was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    It's an absolute peach of an album, might already be my favourite of his.

    Bit surprised how much hate I've read for the Age of Adz in the last few weeks, I was completely under the impression that that album grew on everyone as much as it did on me. I've hardly ever listened to the final track but there's tons of great stuff on it. The guy's got an amazing catalogue imo and has somehow managed to find a balance between having really high quality albums and releasing tons of experimental or novel stuff.



    2015's already been a way better year for albums than 2014 was.
    Ooh can you list a few good new albums, I am horribly out of the loop these days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    It's an absolute peach of an album, might already be my favourite of his.

    Bit surprised how much hate I've read for the Age of Adz in the last few weeks, I was completely under the impression that that album grew on everyone as much as it did on me. I've hardly ever listened to the final track but there's tons of great stuff on it. The guy's got an amazing catalogue imo and has somehow managed to find a balance between having really high quality albums and releasing tons of experimental or novel stuff.



    2015's already been a way better year for albums than 2014 was.
    Impossible Soul is one of the best tracks on the album!!

    Did you miss him live on his last tour? Maybe seeing it performed live twice a few times has shifted my opinion a little but I love it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    Ooh can you list a few good new albums, I am horribly out of the loop these days
    Was really more a knock at 2014 than 2015 being amazing, but Sufjan, Kendrick, Bjork, Panda Bear, Courtney Barnett and Death Grips have all released albums I'd rate above most everything from last year that I've heard.

    Haven't been in the mood to give the D'Angelo album a punt still, or Swans, though.
    S.M.B. wrote: »
    Impossible Soul is one of the best tracks on the album!!

    Did you miss him live on his last tour? Maybe seeing it performed live twice a few times has shifted my opinion a little but I love it.
    It largely stems from me having to delete it to fit the album onto my mp3 player years ago, to be honest. I like All Delighted People a lot so I can definitely handle long Sufjan.
    Haven't been to a gig in years (Pavement), but Sufjan's one of the few acts I actually want to see now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭niallo76


    It really is a marvellous record,hoping he plays electric picnoíd


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Useful.Idiot


    Amazing album! Possibly a long shot, but is there any record stores in Dublin that would stock it on vinyl?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 369 ✭✭lewisdhead


    Amazing album! Possibly a long shot, but is there any record stores in Dublin that would stock it on vinyl?

    Freebird, Tower, HMV, I'd say they'll all have it on vinyl.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭Rabo Karabekian


    lewisdhead wrote: »
    Freebird, Tower, HMV, I'd say they'll all have it on vinyl.

    HMV on Henry Street had it over the weekend anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭kellso81


    http://www.songkick.com/artists/118509-sufjan-stevens

    2 dates in the helix at the end of August, tickets on sale thursday.


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