Sufjan Stevens' second release, Enjoy Your Rabbit, is a vast departure from the pan-ethnic folk of his debut. Using almost no exterior samples, Stevens crafts an electronic, all-"instrumental" song cycle based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. While working within these considerably narrower confines, he still maps out a wide musical territory by using each symbol as a mode, each one exploring different textures and tempos and, in the process, evoking a surprising array of moods. At times eerie and ominous like a backwoods Autechre, other times sounding like more club-oriented fare, Stevens sometimes trades in bloops and bleeps for oblique glitches and crackles, but the underlying guiding principle is wide-eyed exploration that fills nearly every track with a sense of playfulness.
RIYL Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes, Mount Eerie
Tracklisting
- Year of the Asthmatic Cat
- Year of the Monkey
- Year of the Rat
- Year of the Ox
- Year of the Boar
- Year of the Tiger
- Year of the Snake
- Year of the Sheep
- Year of the Rooster
- Year of the Dragon
- Enjoy Your Rabbit
- Year of the Dog
- Year of the Horse
- Year of our Lord
Please note that Enjoy Your Rabbit is currently not in store but is with our local supplier.
Most of the time it takes around 2-5 days from the time you place the order for the item to arrive here and be sent out but it can take longer if there are any delays.