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| 0.0 | luci | June 30th 20 |
so much for sowing stopping at 500 reviews
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| 0.0 | jakeboehmer | July 5th 20 |
if you don?t like this one jus wait till 2025
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| 3.0 good | tectactoe | September 25th 20 |
Sowing hurry up and review this so we can spent 57 pages talking about how you overrated it and the album is merely OK.
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| 0.0 | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | July 4th 20 |
I never knew I wanted Sufjan to cover Carly Rae this much
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| 3.0 good | charlopiano | September 25th 20 |
As much as I liked it, and thought it was good, I don't have much positive to say about the albumrThe production is hit or miss, it's gorgeous on tracks like Tell Me You Love, but really irritating on songs like Gilgamesh or Death Star. The sound is interesting but, Idon't think matches Sufjan's voices every time, which is a shame.rPlus, the album is really long. 1h20. Damn
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| 4.0 excellent | AmericanFlagAsh | June 30th 20 |
In which we learn Sufjan shits his pants just like everyone else
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| 1.5 very poor | Lichtbringer | April 3rd 21 |
Stevens moves further away from Indie and has become soulless and criminally boring as a result.
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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | October 18th 20 |
I appreciate how easily it breezes by despite the runtime. Sufjan isn't delving into this new difficult to define electro-orchestral style head-first, he is carefully crafting his songs to work as well as they possibly could with this new brand of serious-quirky jumble-pop-epic music. That said, the quirks and zany choices often clash with the overall seriousness and theatrical grandeur. And clash they do in an unflattering way. Some production choices can derail a song, some choruses are not as strong as the sound of it would want, some vocal traits turn a serious moment laughable and often the biggest impact is left by the most subtle and straightforward of tracks. So the album is a mix of beautifully mastered wild pieces and also musical free-for-alls that feel like a few cans of paint spilled into an ugly mess.
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| 3.0 good | mmmonty | October 1st 20 |
It's too long, songs are too long, but his vocals are more impressive. Feels like he's belting a few times. Could have done without the "Die Happy" song and some of the longer intros/outros. Get to the point!
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| 4.5 superb | ajcollins15 | September 30th 20 |
On the now Upstate New York-based solo artists Sufjan Stevens eighth album he continues sounds and esthetics that he explored on his collaborative 2017 effort ?Planetarium? and earlier this years' ?Aporia?. On his first solo album in five years, Sufjan builds vast and expansive space ambient based soundscapes, in which each track explores an insurmountable number of genres in the experimental electronic field. I could break down each track, but that will ruin the beauty of exploring this album to it?s fullest. This is the closest album I have ever heard to make me feel truly alone, in all the best ways possible. For a whole hour and twenty minutes, you will be taken on a space odyssey exploring topics of blind faith, toxic religion, drug abuse, and death. My only complaint (and this never comes up) is I wish he extended out some of the ambient drones in many of the tracks. Alone they are equally as mesmerizing as the rest of the album. But still, a nearly flawless album and I am absolutely in love with the new direction he is taking.
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| 3.0 good | FoozerFan | September 28th 20 |
REALLY feel all 80 minutes of this thing jesus louise-usrAmerica, The Ascension, Tell Me You Love Me, and Goodbye To All That are fantastic tracks though
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| 2.5 average | Erwann S. STAFF | September 28th 20 |
Sufjan apathetically singing on top of expansive soundscapes. This sounds like Adz's sophistication meets C&L's restraint? Yup, but it mostly got the faults of each of its parent records - ie Adz length problem and C&L's almost too subdued nature. The main problem is, it's dragging like hell. Some Kid A textures are really nice, but they intervene not often enough for the whole album to fully engage the listener. This might sound super harsh, but I'm waiting to be entertained.
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| 1.0 awful | BrushedRed | September 25th 20 |
I appreciate this from a standpoint that it can help me go to sleep when I am experiencing insomnia. A long, boring, slog with absolutely no redeeming qualities.
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| 0.0 | zoso33 | August 14th 20 |
does anyone else feel like "video game" is really silly?
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| 3.0 good | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 2.5 average | Prole | November 28th 23 |
| 3.5 great | bSmith | October 9th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Lassie | September 14th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Tb1114 | March 25th 23 |
| 2.5 average | tancrni | February 5th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Timmy | January 20th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Skiiddz | October 13th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | xxm | June 28th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | May 10th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Pvzuzu | January 13th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Oobaloo | January 5th 22 |
| 3.0 good | BoerK | October 17th 21 |
| 2.5 average | xlev | October 2nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | pt3 | September 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Isob3l | September 24th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Jerrad | August 31st 21 |
| 1.5 very poor | Archaic | June 12th 21 |
| 2.5 average | xa2bad | May 29th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Fugue | February 11th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Mike01 | January 24th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Polvo | January 11th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | TwigTW | January 7th 21 |
| 1.5 very poor | gschwen | December 28th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | JoshieG | December 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. STAFF | December 20th 20 |
| 3.0 good | gilly | December 17th 20 |
| 3.5 great | cb123 | December 14th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | November 28th 20 |
| 3.5 great | ckssr1 | November 6th 20 |
| 2.5 average | remi | October 29th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Veldin | October 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | ghworin | October 15th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bonny99 | October 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Handers | October 10th 20 |
| 3.5 great | alamo | October 2nd 20 |
| 3.0 good | chwe | October 2nd 20 |
| 3.0 good | El Olam | September 30th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Respawn | September 30th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Xhoven | September 30th 20 |
| 3.0 good | lz41 | September 30th 20 |
| 2.0 poor | mikep87 | September 29th 20 |
| 2.5 average | jmh886 | September 29th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Cormano | September 29th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Paint | September 29th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Khattak | September 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Djang0 | September 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | September 28th 20 |
| 2.5 average | anat CONTRIBUTOR | September 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | jlsg | September 27th 20 |
| 3.0 good | JNeu | September 27th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thuckabe | September 27th 20 |
| 3.0 good | bharry | September 27th 20 |
| 2.5 average | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | September 27th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | RichRamp | September 26th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Jekub | September 26th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Ryus | September 26th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | bokeh | September 26th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Pangea | September 25th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Prancer | September 25th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Jots EMERITUS | September 25th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Above313 | September 25th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Mathias STAFF | September 25th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | fog CONTRIBUTOR | September 25th 20 |
| 2.7 average | Rowan5215 STAFF | September 25th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Hyndez | September 25th 20 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | September 25th 20 |
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