Breeding the Spawn is the second full-length album by Suffocation. Though it still employs the characteristics and elements associated with Suffocation s song writing, the production on the album is much thinner than on other albums, due to financial problems regarding their label Roadrunner Records.
New York death metal legends Suffocation unleash their ninth full-length album, Hymns from the Apocrypha. Co-produced by Christian Donaldson (Shadow Of Intent, Ingested) and featuring cover art by Greek illustrator Giannis Nakos (Vomitory, The Crown), the album pushes the band to the very edges of extremity. Hymns from the Apocrypha demonstrates Suffocation leveling up as…
The seventh studio album from NY death metal legends Suffocation. Originally released in 2013, Pinnacle of Bedlam harkens back to the band s classic records Effigy of the Forgotten and Pierced From Within . Pop Matters called the album another killer record made by metal s irrepressible old-guard . Metal Injection described the album as…
It s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies? Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A Beginner’s Mind is their debut album that contains 14 songs (loosely) based on (mostly) popular…
Carrie & Lowell sounds like memory: it spans decades yet does not trade on pastiche or nostalgia. Stevens s gauzy double-tracked vocals wash across the dashboard of long-finned, drop-top Americana, yet as we race towards the coast we are reminded that sunshine leads to shadow, for this is a landscape of terminal roads, unsteady bridges,…
It may be tempting to reduce Convocations into a longform ambient anomaly within Sufjan Stevens’ vast catalogue. It is, however, neither an anomaly nor entirely ambient. This is not a side project. From his numerous dance scores for New York City Ballet to instrumental albums such as Enjoy Your Rabbit, Aporia, and The BQE, Stevens…
The Greatest Gift is a mixtape of outtakes, remixes and demos from Sufjan s 2015 album Carrie & Lowell. Already on vinyl and digital, the mixtape arrives on CD format on November 16. This collection serves as a companion piece to the Carrie & Lowell Live album released earlier this year (and as an expansion…
Asthmatic Kitty announces the second installment of Sufjan Stevens 50 State Project, llinois, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Following the 2003 collection of songs for his home state, Michigan, Stevens presents an emphatic answer to the question: Can a songwriter express the spirit of a state he s never called home?…
Once you ve taken in how wonderful it sounds, it ll be time to thrill at how much of it there is, then how dense it all is. Not simply wonderful music, Michigan is a collection of short stories set to song. Meticulously researched histories, in most cases, whose subject matter veers from folklore to…
Reflections is a recording of Sufjan Stevens’ sixth collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Justin Peck. Originally commissioned for performances (May 17 – 26, 2019) by Houston Ballet, the piano duet was recorded at Oktaven Studios by Ryan Streber and performed by pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick. Reflections is characteristic Stevens: dynamic, melodic, memorable, emotionally resonant,…
The little secret behind Sufjan Steven’s acclaimed Illinois is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in—as did the opinions of others—and the project was cut in half. But as…
Aporia is a New Age album from Sufjan Stevens and his step-father and record label co-owner, Lowell Brams, brimming with moody, hooky, gauzy synthesizer soundscapes and created collaboratively in the spirit of the New Age composers who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth; Aporia is not a mere curio in the Sufjan Stevens…
This deluxe edition of The Decalogue comprises a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket, 180-gram vinyl, 40 page songbook, 9×12 art print, and download card.The title of The Decalogue has a touch of the grandiose: it means The Ten Commandments. Yet this score, composed by Sufjan Stevens for a dance work choreographed by Justin Peck that premiered…
Sugar Ray became widely known through their infectious pop single “Fly”, and a consequent lighter musical direction displayed by songs like “Every Morning”, “Someday”, and “When It s Over”. However, at Sugar Ray s earliest conception, they were a rock metal band at heart, with enough goofy energy to land them a deal with Atlantic…
Sugarhill Gang Rapper s Delight: The Best Of The Sugarhill Gang on Limited Edition 180g 2LP from Friday Music Mastered by Joe Reagoso When you mention legends in the music industry, you have to pay your respects to the Sugarhill Gang, hip hops first superstars and pioneers. Put together by legendary recording artist producer record owner Sylvia Robinson who named the…
A Way of Life was recorded in the fashion of a live album and the result is a timeless masterwork that possesses a raw, confrontational edge, similar to Suicide s first album. A Way of Life s accompanying live disc is a challenging encounter between the band and their audience at the Town and Country…