2023-10-23 19:06:27
What a fan pleaser – but unfortunately these (limited to 3000 copies in physical form) 5 Unreleased Songs only Rough Trade-Buyers of Sufjan Stevens’ latest studio album Javelin donated.
As a collection of material that, due to the way it was published, at first glance presumably consists of outtakes from Javelin must exist, are the 12 minutes 5 Unreleased Songs actually for a long time both aesthetically (in terms of the economical production alone, but also the direct connections to songs by The Greatest Gift) as well as thematically (all the Oregon references alone) are closer to us over long stretches Carrie & Lowell from 2015. Which is what the title suggests somewhere.
The miniature Malthusian Mistress In any case, it’s almost more of a demo or sketch than a fully formulated song, reduced to the guitar and Stevens’ breathy vocals in an exemplary fleeting and delicate manner. Is It My Fault? Afterwards, it remains subversive and reserved, but has a more open, lively orientation and even achieves a comparatively optimistic mood of optimism. The gem Fireproof is comforting and forgiving, softly playful folklore that seems like a precursor to City of Roses seems like, in the meantime Old Man of the Lake The pop catchiness is most evident in the songwriting, along a classic melody it practically suggests a Sufjan diamond in the rough (which the outro at least partially shares Wallowa Lake Monster Splits).
And even though The Kiss of Niobe first of all, the already very homogeneous, hardly exciting, but atmospherically engaging circle of people 5 Unreleased Songs to close, the closer is then influenced by the more elaborate arrangements (as a curious stroll through a fairy-tale underwater world under the spell of magic Exploding Whale) more like showing the path to Javelin.
Long story short: as a casual listener of Stevens, you don’t necessarily have to have this footnote on your shelf – but as a fan, you can start to wonder about the neglectful way in which an album bonus story was published that is absolutely not redundant, but really beautiful, sensitive and subtle the archives annoy.
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