Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
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Free Music Notes for Seven Swans
Free Music Review: Awesome for easy listening
Hit: 4 Stars
This album is perfect to be playing in the backround while relaxing. It's mellow tone is just ideal for early morning or late night. It is definately 'mood music' though. What I mean is, you need to be in a tranquil state of mind to truely enjoy this CD. It flows smoothly from one song to another, calmly leading us to the end, where the two best songs (Seven Swans Transfiguration) finish off the album in a spectacular fashion. Free Music Review: Really Good
Hit: 4 Stars
This isn't my favorite Sufjan album, but it's still freaking amazing. For fans of Iron & Wine and the like, this is a really good choice. If you want something with more of a variance of instruments and which can draw no comparisons, go with "A Sun Came" or "Illinois," both of which I would grant six stars were it possible.Free Music Review: Really good, but not Michigan.
Hit: 4 Stars
The first Sufjan album I heard was Welcome to Michigan. Its combination of populism, elaborate orchestration, lyrical intimacy, and weird, sad optimism is totally unique. This album is really good, but it doesn't have the same range. The songs repeat themselves and each other a little too much to make listening to it all the way through as satisfying as the Michigan album. That said, "In the Devil's Territory" is probably my favorite Sufjan song. Free Music Review: A Detour From The State Project
Hit: 4 Stars
Wow.
Sometime at the end of last year I was getting pretty sick of seeing Sufjan's name splayed all over various music news sites and was once even "forced" to hear his (what I dismissed as) boring songs during a long car ride. But when I opened my mind and actually listened to a few songs off "Michigan," I was blown away. (I shed tears listening to "For the Widows in Paradise.." for the first time at the lines "I did everything for you.")
"Seven Swans" comes off a bit differently and boasts a heavier Christian theme. Sufjan is freer to explore a wider range of subjects, one of which includes a famous literary work by Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find." The song and its lyrics were strangely touching and very compelling despite the fact that I had never read any of O'Connor's stories. The banjo really shines on this one, as it escalates, so does the listener's emotion. And one of my favorites, "The Transfiguration" is an almost verbatim retelling of the passage of the same title in the gospels. The gradual build into a sweeping chorale of praise transports the listener to a holy place.
Sufjan's work represents a fine marriage between outstanding musicianship and true faith, a rare find in the Christian music industry of today. (Which makes me wonder, for those audiophiles who aren't all into "indie," what is their unbiased opinion?) As a Christian myself, Sufjan's music doesn't merely entertain with its beautiful interplays and irregular time signatures, it goes a step further and makes me examine my own heart. He has quickly become one of my favorite artists and I look forward to his next album, "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!" to be released on July 5th.
Free Music Review: one of my personal favorites
Hit: 5 Stars
Let's put it this way, the c.d. was the first I grabbed when I went to make a mix tape for my best friend.
Sufjan Stevens doesn't fail to produce hauntingly lovely melodies, perfect implementation of a banjo, and a really great folk/indie/whateveryouwanttocallit mood.