The Age of Adz
- Sufjan Stevens
- Band Name: Sufjan Stevens
- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Release Date: Oct 12, 2010
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100What Sufjan did in The Age of Adz is so beautiful and rich and complicated; he ended up telling the story of what life is for so many people who just end up turning the gears of the larger machine.
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100If the point of music is for us to take something from it - whether it be an emotional response or a change in mindset or any sort of inspiration - then The Age Of Adz is the most selfless album ever recorded, and Sufjan is the most giving composer.
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After all those years that people remarked and possibly, tried to shut him out, Stevens has returned with what just might be the best music he has ever crafted.
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Musically and lyrically, The Age of Adz is exhilarating, challenging, and thought-provoking.
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The Age of Adz complements rather than distracts from the heartrending melodies and ambitious orchestration underneath.
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It's what you hope for from your favorite artists in your best moments -- evolution, a little difficulty and, especially, something new.
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The Age of Adz is an outrageously fun and messy masterpiece.
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What makes The Age of Adz an exception rather than some blatant hat-tip to those artists is Stevens's quirky trademarks.
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Each pass cements that Stevens has done the impossible yet again: He's released another album that's both genre-defining and genre-defying.
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Dec 23, 201088Stevens ventures widely on this 85-minute disc to find the best way to express what turn out to be basic home truths.
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Oct 22, 201088Sufjan's proficiency with larger-than-life arrangements has always been one of his strongest qualities as a musician, and across The Age of Adz he wields that proficiency, brazenly, like a kind of weapon.
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84As important questions about music's worth in the age of free continue to swirl around him, Sufjan's still combating instant-gratification culture the best way he knows how.