{"id":1508,"date":"2010-12-21T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2010-12-21T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:00:01","slug":"review-sufjan-review-age-of-adz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/12\/21\/review-sufjan-review-age-of-adz\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Sufjan Review &#8211; Age of Adz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sufjan-Stevens-The-Age-of-Adz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1510\" title=\"Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sufjan-Stevens-The-Age-of-Adz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe only thing lacking from Sufjan Stevens\u2019 latest endeavor <em>Age of Adz<\/em> is a warning on the front cover, cautioning the soft-spoken singer-songwriter&#8217;s fans that his new album is anything but soft or singer-songwriter-esque. Imagine the string-strumming Sufjan we all know and love, but dragged through a synthesizer and re-arranged into an Edward Scissorhands version of his former self. Voila, this is <em>Age of Adz<\/em>. Stevens\u2019 inspiration for his new album seems to range from the artwork of the former manically futuristic artist Royal Robertson, a self-described abandonment of a \u201cre-meditated, scholastic, intellectual approach to songwriting\u201d (www.eyeweekly.com) and an existential crisis (Mmm, right). Pretentious? Not really. Consider the scope of this guy\u2019s discography: an experimental collection dedicated to the Chinese zodiac, a biblically-inspired narrative album as well as a five-disc set of all the Christmas classics. I suggest listening to <em>Age of Adz<\/em> in short intervals of 3-4 songs at a time if you\u2019re an old Sufjan fan, and if you\u2019re just looking for a couple songs to throw on a playlist, I\u2019d suggest checking out \u201cFutile Devices,\u201d \u201cAge of Adz,\u201d \u201cVesuvius,\u201d and \u201cI Walked.\u201d  (Asthmatic Kitty Records,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asthmatickitty.com\">www.asthmatickitty.com<\/a>) <strong>Victoria King<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing lacking from Sufjan Stevens\u2019 latest endeavor Age of Adz is a warning on the front cover, cautioning the soft-spoken singer-songwriter&#8217;s fans that his new album is anything but soft or singer-songwriter-esque. Imagine the string-strumming Sufjan we all know and love, but dragged through a synthesizer and re-arranged into an Edward Scissorhands version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}