Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
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Track List: Seven Swans
- All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their HandsDownload & Buy
- Dress Looks Nice on YouDownload & Buy
- In the Devil's TerritoryDownload & Buy
- To Be Alone With YouDownload & Buy
- AbrahamDownload & Buy
- SisterDownload & Buy
- Size Too SmallDownload & Buy
- We Won't Need Legs to StandDownload & Buy
- Good Man Is Hard to FindDownload & Buy
- He Woke Me Up AgainDownload & Buy
- Seven SwansDownload & Buy
- TransfigurationDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Seven Swans
- Release Date:
- 03/16/2004
- Label:
- Sounds Familyre
- UPC:
- 656605551326
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews After completing the first installment of his fifty record deal with the United States, indiefolk overachiever, Sufjan Stevens, returns with Seven Swans, a collection of strippeddown, introspective musings on life, love, and faith, that chart the geographic location of the heart and soul. Many of these themes were dealt with eloquently on Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State, presenting the singer/multiinstrumentalist as a first rate interpreter of the human condition, as well as a gifted musician. The twelve tracks on Swans yield the same bounty, but with a leaner arsenal, due to Stevens sparse arrangements and production from Danielson Famile mastermind, Daniel Smith. Fellow Famile members Elin, Megan, David, and Andrewwho also appeared on The Great Lakes Statelend their vocal and percussion talents to the mix, resulting in a surreal campfire environment that's part confessional and part processional. Beginning with gorgeously titled, "All the Trees in the Field Will Clap Their Hands," Stevens saunters out of the gate with nary an overdub to be heard, letting the banjo lead the parade; slowly picking up piano, percussion, and the angelic voices of Megan and Elin before disappearing over the hilltop. He channels Bert Jansch on the love song, "The Dress Looks Nice On You," and Eric Matthews on "To Be Alone With You," striking a winning balance of sixties Britishfolk and indieAmericana. Like the Violent Femmes seminal, pseudoChristian masterpiece, Hallowed Ground, Seven Swans treats religion with simplicity and sincerity, approaching the subject with an almost feverish peacefulness. "Abraham," "We Won't Need Legs to Stand," and "He Woke Me Up Again", with its fiery, overdriven organ, are all effective tomes of the singer's faith, but they are not untestable. Stevens is quite aware of the dark, and no more so than on the Flannery O' Connor inspired, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," a first personmurdernarrative that reveals a subtle current of menace, only hinted at in the earlier portion of the record. Like faith, these songs require patience, as their almost mantralike arcs take their time to fully form. By the time he reaches the spirited closer, "Transfiguration," an affirming take on the Gospels that reaches an almost Polyphonic Spree crescendo, the listener has no choice but to conformif only for the length of the recordto the writer's unabashed spirituality, and at just under fortyfive minutes, it's an easy choice to make. - James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide |
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Sufjan Stevens Biography
A singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Sufjan Stevens started his venture in the music world as a member of Marzuki, a folk-rock band based in Holland, MI. Following the release of two full-length albums with the group, Stevens decided to go ...Full Sufjan Stevens Biography
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Pros: its easy to listin to and puts you in a good mood.
Cons: kinnda fuzzy
rocks on a sunday morning