as probably the biggest sufjan fan you’ll meet, i know damn well the album is technically named “illinois,” but i thought correcting people on such trivial things was reserved for the most elitist of hipsters. and, i suppose it is.

love the artwork. this guy has a real desire to put out top notch stuff, really impressive.

i hadn’t thought about that, but i totally hear it. it’s those drums.

this is a fantastic album. vesuvius and the auto tune section of impossible soul are up there with anything else he’s done. i think this will be a polarizing album for people, but at the end of a day we have a truly curious artist who spent a long time making a well thought out collection of songs. we can’t ask much more from the music scene.

good call changing the title of this post from “sufjan thinks age of adz…” we’re talking about a label, here.

ha, you described a song as “sterile.”

i might be wrong, but i think the guys came up with that part during a random session and were like “badass, let’s keep that” rather than contemplating ghostly wind noises and haunted houses.

the national look the same.

nice! i was hoping to see some coverage of this. i went to all three nights. robin’s set was incredible, maybe even the best of all (there’s something about being blown away by new songs live). joanna’s set was great, and her band is insanely talented. i absolutely loved yMusic, and i would love to have that music to listen to. it was like sufjan’s orchestration, but better. st. vincent was great as well, although her light show freaked me out. it seemed almost too trippy for the intimate setting that the festival always tries to promote. colin stetson got some incredible tones out of those instruments. sure confused those bon iver fans. as for bon iver, i have to say, i was continually unimpressed with each song. he wasn’t solo for many of them, and he had a good amount of people playing with him on the other ones – but the songs just didn’t go anywhere. the arrangements felt lazy. but i had fun. musicnow is a definite treat if you are able to attend just one night.

the brothers’ guitar work is incredible if you take a listen to it – they’re really creative with the guitar, and are really, really underrated musicians in their own right. matt has a fantastic lyrical style that speaks to any hipster in their 20s, and beyond. the drumming is intense and as creative as the guitar work. nothing is half assed in this band.

this is all great stuff.

however, i wish there was input from anonymous users.

“3. It’s being released in Spring when it feels more like a winter album. I go into greater depth in my review but there’s the tl;dr version.”

that’s somewhat silly. beside the fact that “good winter music” or “great summer record!” is generally synonymous with “slow and depressing” or “upbeat and makes you want to dance,” an artist like james mercer (broken bells are signed to columbia) most likely didn’t have control over when his album would be released.

an incredible accomplishment.