The BQE
- Sufjan Stevens
- Band Name: Sufjan Stevens
- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Release Date: Oct 20, 2009
- Summary: The Detroit artist wrote the music for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), to be performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Next Wave Festival in October of 2007.
- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 22
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Mixed: 7 out of 22
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Negative: 0 out of 22
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It's his most ambitious undertaking to date, and while it presents no obvious singles or easy entry points, he pulls it off without it feeling pretentious or ponderous.
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Complex and artful, there's no need to understand fugues and canons to appreciate this--its utter perfection and joy is self-evident.
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It feels like a project, something done for school as a kid, with the kind of whimsical subject matter that a child might dream up, but carried out with tremendous artistic vision and skill. [Fall 2009, p.60]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of
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Mixed: 0 out of
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Negative: 0 out of
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