Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit - 2004 Experimental Electronic Indie Shoegaze - Red + Clear Vinyl Ltd Ed - Sealed 2LP

Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit


Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records – AKR003
Format: Vinyl, LP, Red
Vinyl, LP, Clear
All Media, Album, Limited Edition
Country: US
Released: 24 Jun 2014
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Experimental, Indie Rock, Shoegaze


Notes

Comes with picture booklet
Comes with MP3 download

An album of programmatic songs for the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Album tracks are listed sequentially on release.
Limited edition colored vinyl pressing information:
Side A/B on translucent red, side C/D on clear





Tracklist

A1 Year Of The Asthmatic Cat 0:24
A2 Year Of The Monkey 4:20
A3 Year Of The Rat 8:22
A4 Year Of The Ox 4:01
A5 Year Of The Boar 3:55

B1 Year Of The Tiger 4:24
B2 Year Of The Snake 6:47
B3 Year Of The Sheep 3:34
B4 Year Of The Rooster 6:24

C1 Year Of The Dragon 9:26
C2 Enjoy Your Rabbit 4:47
C3 Year Of The Dog 4:52

D1 Year Of The Horse 13:18
D2 Year Of Our Lord 4:30




Credits

Artwork [Original] – Matt Morgan
Performer [Everything Else] – Sufjan Stevens
Trumpet – Tom Eaton
Voice – Liz Janes
Voice [Chinese] – Mannar Wong
Written-By – Sufjan Stevens





With the folky acoustic sounds of his debut A Sun Came, no one expected Sufjan Stevens to release something like this. Without a decipherable vocal in sight, Stevens' Enjoy Your Rabbit is one heck of an instrumental concept album, relying on mostly electronic sounds, but also a few other instruments for good measure.
Yes, it is heavily electronic, but Enjoy Your Rabbit is no Joy Electric. There's a certain amount of chaos in the album that would make Ronnie Martin shudder, yet Sufjan controls it beautifully to the point of creating cosmos within the noise. Stevens knows when the noise can get too disorientating, and mixes in several lighter numbers. Some of the songs, like track three, "Year of the Rat", are simply great, orchestrated melodies, with the one in mention being something Danny Elfman would be proud of.
If anything, purchase this because of the courage Stevens had to take a 360 degree turn in his artistic career and create this strange, yet ultimately brilliant, masterpiece. It has nice artwork, too.




Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Ox

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Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit

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Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Rat

This is some very ambitious work by Sufjan. Instrumental electronica. Absolutely unique in its own right.

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