Sufjan Stevens & Carrie Ann Stevens Collaboration: 'n by Sufjan Stevens

Cliente Amazon: Gostaria de versar especificamente sobre a edicao em vinyl que adquiri em 2023. A entrega não atrasou e o produto veio bem embalado. Como existem muitas edições em vinyl para este album e como a amazon ESCONDE qual das edições está vendendo, só da para saber qual versão estamos comprando quando elas são entregues. Seria muito bom que a amazon divulgasse o que esta vendendo (por exemplo indicando qual a edição esta sendo comercializada), pois eles apenas mencionam o ASIN que não é reefrência para ninguem além dos estqoquistas da amzon. Então não me culpem se a amazon enviar uma edição com prensagem ruim, as vezes acontece e na amazon é sempre uma loteria descobrir qual edição vai chegar.

Brazil on Oct 27, 2023

Maurizio: Sufjan Stevens è monocorde, può piacere o no, se vi piace la sua produzione, amerete questo disco da climax autunno-invernale. La mia traccia preferita è la prima,”Death with dignity”, che fa parte della colonna sonora della serie “This is Us”

Italy on Oct 10, 2023

Baugus74: Such Beauty

United States on Jun 07, 2023

Cliente Amazon: Semplicemente splendido

Italy on May 22, 2023

Indigo T.: As a huge music lover, honestly, while I liked Sufjan's work, I had not really connected with more than a few songs and liked him well in general.

I listened to this when it was on NPR's First Listen. I could not get over it, stop listening to it. IT IS AN AMAZING, RAW, HEARTGRIPPING ALBUM. I like a LOT of music. This one is the first album in a long time, that in my mind, qualifies as a masterpiece. Definitely one of my favorite all time albums.

The vulnerability in this album is breathtaking. I honestly feel like this album is a service to all of us humans. We will all experience grief in this lifetime and I know I will return again and again to this album to keep me company in the depths of the worst of it and transport me to shore as well.

There are a few songs that I cannot listen to without tearing up. "Should Have Known Better" is a killer.

An aside, live, this show blew me away too. But no big surprise.

Thank you, Sufjan!

United States on Mar 22, 2016

Ras@: Erst durch dieses Album, bin ich auf das musikalische Genie Sufjan Stevens aufmerksam geworden. Der Multiinstrumentalist, der bereits in der Vergangenheit für seine sehr vielschichtigen und teils (besonders im Falle von "The Age of Adz") schwerer zugänglichen Alben stand, legt hier plötzlich ein sehr zurückhaltendes, fast schon zahmes Album vor. Dies war jedenfalls mein Gedanke, bei den ersten Hördurchläufen des Albums, wobei dies nicht einmal als Negativpunkt gewertet werden sollte.
Es ist ein Werk, das mit der Zeit mehr und mehr entdeckt werden will. Stevens Stimme wirkt wie ein Hauch auf der auch sonst vorsichtigen Instrumentierung und dies ist bei den behandelten Themen auch mehr als passend! Im Mittelpunkt des Albums steht klar seine komplizierte Beziehung zu seiner Mutter, die Mitte 2012 an Krebs starb. Laut Stevens, verließ sie ihn mehrmals in seinem Leben, aufgrund ihrer schweren psychischen Krankheiten und nahm so nie wirklich die Position der liebenden Bezugsperson ein. Kurz vor ihrem Tod allerdings, söhnte sich Stevens mit ihr aus und konnte Abschied nehmen. Nach ihrem Tod fühlte er sich leer und bedeutungslos und ihm wurde klar, wie sehr er sich eine...

Germany on Feb 09, 2016

Jessica Gleason: I had skimmed the reviews here on Amazon suggesting that this is an album that deserves to be listened to straight through with your full attention. Despite them, I first put on the album as background music while I worked. I managed to get through the first couple songs that way, just a sweet, mellow soundtrack to what I was doing. By the third song, I couldn't help but pay attention. By the sixth song, I had tears in my eyes.

Since that first listen a few days ago, I have not been able to shake this album. I rushed to get tickets to the tour which is about to pass through my town.

It's a little weird to recommend this album to other people because it's really not... fun, and it's a little hard for me to pin down why I can't stop coming back to it. It's pretty bleak all around with an unapologetic honesty. It feels extremely personal, so much so that I admire Sufjan Stevens' bravery in being willing to open up so much to us strangers about his grief over his mother's death and the dark period in his life that accompanied it. As much as the album seems to be so much a window into Sufjan's own singular experiences, it also puts an emphasis on the uncomfortable truth...

United States on Apr 17, 2015

Nian: Let me start by saying this. I'm a 40 year old guy, that would name most of his favorite albums from the 90’s with a few 80’s and 2000’s peppered in there. I don’t get the chance to listen to as much anymore, and not as much strikes a chord with me as it used to. BUT – then I heard this album. I have always respected Sufjan, and was hit and miss on his work in the past. But this album hit me like a ton of bricks. I don’t really know how to explain it. But it is masterful in its execution. No song is that different than the next when you really think about it. They are all very soft, beautiful, steady voiced songs that almost flow as one complete work. I think that it makes the subtle shifts of mood and tone within songs and from song to song, take real meaning. I have yet to make it through the album without holding back tears. It is incredibly honest and intricately written. All of Me Wants all of You, Fourth of July, and Blue Bucket of Gold, just wreck me. Anyone who has lost anyone will be able to take some heartbreaking solace in this album.

United States on Apr 13, 2015

pallmall22pallmall22: Many people might refer to this as a “return to form!” for Sufjan Stevens as it does harken back to his familiar acoustic folky-root sound of Seven Swans and other works.
But the simple acoustic sound is basically the only thing it has in common with that.
This is VERY different territory for Sufjan Stevens. I’ve read that this album was inspired by the death of his mother. I can believe that. It’s an extremely upsetting and depressing album. The A-side is filled with gorgeous simple almost rudimentary songwriting (“Death with Dignity” sweeps you up) and “Should Have Known Better” and “All of Me Wants All of You” are up there with some of his best songs. The B-side is a different experience that is prefaced by the last track on A-side “Fourth of July” -
the album on the flip side of the vinyl goes down darker roads and I honestly felt very moody and deflated while listening to it. It’s not that it’s bad, at all, quite the contrary - it’s well-made as you come to expect from Stevens but man, this was rough to listen to! I felt very sad all day after finishing it. The album fades out in a very down-trodden way, which is strange, since I’m...

United States on Apr 01, 2015

Syriat: Here is something to contemplate. Its been ten years since Sufjan Stevens released the career high Illinoise, the second in his ill fated and now abandoned 50 states project. Since then he hasn't been as intimate, releasing Age of Adz in a swathe of electronics, the Sisyphus side project and two Christmas box sets (let's discount The Avalanche as it was just a companion piece to Illinois). Here he returns to Illinoise and Seven Swans era music with his most intimate music to date. An album dedicated to his mother (who passed away in 2012) and his step father, who now runs his label Asthmatic Kitty. However, this is Sufjan Stevens and his relationship with his mother was as complex and dark as you can imagine. His recent forays may have alienated many who loved his early era intimacy (personally I loved Age of Adz) but this will see those fans return to the fold as he opens up his past for all to see.

There are moments of beauty here in the arrangements, however the lyrics are altogether darker. Should Have Known Better sounds like a slightly more up tempo version of John Wayne Gacy Jr from Illinoise but actually is as dark as that number. It depicts the first time that...

United Kingdom on Mar 30, 2015