Sufjan Stevens
11 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Andy Gill, Rock's Backpages audio, July 2005
Mr Stevens talks about his latest album, Illinois: his memories of Chicago and Peoria; reading biographies of both cities; how his writing is informed by fiction, and how fact and fiction interchange; the instruments used in making the album; his long track titles; Detroit v Chicago; the influence of Terry Riley; his Steiner School upbringing, and his addressing of the Native American genocide.
File format: mp3; file size: 19.3mb, interview length: 20' 07" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, February 2004
POSTMODERNISM HAS jacked it all up. In its wake, the cultural zeitgeist of irony has become so prevalent and requisite that plain old earnestness ceases ...
The 50 States of Rock: Sufjan Stevens
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 8 June 2004
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY extra-curricular activities traditionally associated with the life of the travelling rock'n'roller. Teaching knitting to the blind is not one of them. ...
Review by Andy Gill, Uncut, 2005
IN AN AGE when the commercial imperative has reduced the notion of ideal musical production to one of recycling old techno riffs, slapping a treated ...
Sufjan Stevens: Liturgical sounds for restaurant place-mats
Interview by Craig McLean, Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2006
Sufjan Stevens makes dazzling celestial music from the minutiae of everyday life. Craig McLean meets him. ...
Sufjan Stevens's symphony for New York
Report and Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Guardian, 27 October 2009
THE BROOKLYN-QUEENS EXPRESSWAY is a miserable stretch of road. The BQE, as New Yorkers call it, has narrow lanes, no hard shoulder, countless potholes, and ...
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 27 March 2015
A cathartic exercise exploring the effect of his estranged mother Carrie's death ...
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, April 2015
EVER THE restless soul, Sufjan Stevens has, since the hysteric electro of his last album proper, 2010's The Age Of Adz, released an album with ...
Sufjan Stevens: Beacon Theatre, New York NY
Live Review by Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 12 April 2015
THE DIFFERENCE between Rufus Wainwright's full length lament for his late mother, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, and Sufjan Stevens, Carrie And Lowell, is ...
Sufjan Stevens: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 4 September 2015
IN AN INTERVIEW with The Quietus' Jeremy Allen in October 2010, with music streaming still in its relative infancy, Sufjan Stevens opined that technological change ...
"I Wish There Could Be A Revolution": Sufjan Stevens Interviewed
Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 21 September 2020
On his new album The Ascension, Sufjan Stevens has abandoned his trademark intricacy and found the power in platitudes. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about ...
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