Sold Date: September 7, 2017
Start Date: June 7, 2017
Final Price: £20.99 (GBP)
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Released Friday 9th June 2017

Brand New Sealed! In stock and ready to dispatch.

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister Double Vinyl LP

Comes with a digital download of the album. 

Welcome to Fenland Records! 

Great that you're checking out this fantastic collaboration.

An album co-composed by four musicians: Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner of The National, contemporary classical music composer / arranger Nico Muhly and drummer James McAlister.

Double LP pressed on heavyweight vinyl with six 12” art inserts and a digital download card.

Flanked by a string quartet and a consort of seven trombones, this unique collaborative ensemble have assembled an expansive song cycle that explores the Sun, the Moon, the planets and other celestial bodies of our solar system (and beyond) through soundscape, song, science and myth.

The subject of the album is not just the wilderness of outer space but also the interior space of human consciousness and how it engages with divinity, depravity, society and self - what does it mean to be human?

A musical and aesthetic journey as far-reaching as its subject: from lush piano ballads to prog-rock political anthems, curious electronic backbeats to classical cadenzas, which occasionally give way to ambient interludes and majestic brass chorales, buttressed by a percussive drive that keeps the momentum skyward.

In spite of all the experimentation in sound and style, Sufjan’s vocals provide a clear and coherent centre of gravity and includes some of his most diverse vocal performances to date (from soft hush to guttural scream); whether he’s singing through effects pedals, vocoders, auto-tune or not, his voice delivers an ambitious flight map through the cosmos.

If you like it enough to buy it today then we'll send you your record lovingly packaged and well protected in specialist vinyl mailing boxes. If you're just browsing today, feel free to come back soon and in the meantime why not check out our Facebook page where you can listen to tracks from records on sale in our store.

We have loads of other great records on sale on Ebay, so check out our listings and combine orders to save on postage.

Track listing

Neptune
Jupiter
Halley’s Comet
Venus
Uranus
Mars
Black Energy
Sun
Tides
Moon
Pluto
Kuiper Belt
Black Hole
Saturn
In The Beginning
Earth
Mercury

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