listened to age of adz for the first time and this is how i'm coping
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Age of Adz - Vesuvius Edition
" music inspired by panic attack "
To celebrate the return of Adz to vinyl, we’ve pressed a special “Vesuvius” Edition in bold red, orange, and black translucent smoke. Engineer Dave Cooley mastered and cut lacquers for this new round of pressings.
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Shameless cringe incoming :^)
Pictured: last month, briefly sitting down during first time listening to Sufjan Stevens' Age of Adz as a fully embodied experience the way it's meant to. When I suddenly Got It
I've been a fan for more than a decade, intensely so for 2 years, and just didn't enjoy it before.
Facilitated by LSD--the two go together better than mushrooms, which his acoustic stuff is better for
I don't think I've felt this sheer bliss from music. It's fitting it was the most harsh, intense, offputting-to-Carrie-and-Lowell fans songs that got me there. Like, Futile Devices is lovely but there's so much more there
Reconnection to my spinal cord and nervous system. This album does something if you access it in the right frame of mind. Ever since, I feel certain parts of songs in my body when they come on. Aware of my nerves and electrical fields, feeling simple joy in the flutes up and down my spine. It's an album that helped me come alive.
I'm being literal--while "dancing" to it (moving) I found a spot in my sad lil scoliosis spine I realized I could just POP and ever since, it's felt better.
It's an odd bit of timing that while this was happening in my life, Sufjan has been in the hospital getting spinal taps and learning to walk again.
Age of Adz came during a period in his life he's talked about coming down with an autoimmune and nervous system issue. I am curious about how that tied into the intensity and embodied, non-narrative aspects. It certainly isn't an album to be still with.
Man, I'm not a gatekeeper and love that people love his music, but it really makes me sad for him as an artist that his work is often reduced to "sad acoustic Christian boy who likes boys" because there is so, so much more going on. Man's first album was out in '99 and he's switched genres and songwriting styles constantly.
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all these years later and i’m still in shock that tiktok popularized the phrase “sufjans stevens summer” as a romantic and fun experience as if a real sufjans stevens summer wouldn’t consist of yearning and loss so deep and painful that god would turn his back on you to block out your cries for mercy
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One time in college I was on a road-trip with acquaintances and I played Sufjan Stevens’ 25 minute song “Impossible Soul” and didn’t know everyone in the car hated it until it ended so now 8 years later I decided to make a playlist of songs you should definitely play on a road trip with strangers
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Planning on doing some cameos of my friend's OCs in my next webcomic - Eternal Living on the Shard 💥 - So I have to design them appropriate outfits, don't I?
This is Harriet, the amazing OC of @odddrawingsandwhatnot !!!! You should check them out they're great!!!
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it's been a long, long time since i've memorized your face
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sufjan on film 2010
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sevenday_mile/5358523948/in/photostream/
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Bruh age of adz is the basis for my entire personality this man needs to be stopped or I'll have to learn how to do a gay ass falsetto
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its only that i still love you deeply
its all the love ive got
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