So, on Tuesday, I woke up with a feeling of sadness. I wasn't angry (definately not angry) but I was kind of, just not feeling the greatest. I got up, did my stretching, and started on my run. About a half mile down my route, it dawned on me: "You can download the new Sufjan Stevens record today!" HALLELUJIAH!! For those of you who don't know, Sufjan Stevens is one of my favorite musicians ever. He's done a lot of amazing stuff, and its almost a limiting thing to try and define how good he is, so I won't.
Anyways. So I get home from my run and go straight to my computer. Now, I feel an extreme duty to make sure that I buy the records I listen to. Its important to me as an artist that I pay for other artists hard work, knowing myself a bit of the frustration that can come from working out a record. So when I say "download", I don't mean that I jumped onto Limewire and started searching for it. And honestly I wouldn't have found it, because it's not due to be out until the 12th of October. So why did I say I could download it?
Well, that's because I pre-ordered it :) If you go to the Asthamatic Kitty website, Stevens' record label, you can pre-order the record and get a passcode to let you download it today :)
So I downloaded it on my downstairs computer, put it in my Dropbox App, and then opened up the file on my computer upstairs. Burned it straight to a CD, and listened to it on my way to work!
What's my impressions? Really happy, then not as happy, then okay, then reconciled a little bit. You'll hear it when it comes out, or you can pre-order it and hear it today!
You can catch a listen of my favorite track below. I love this track, its one of the gems from the record. (WARNING: Those of you who know and love Sufjan, you will be weirded out at first. Give this track a couple listens and you'll hear the goof ol' Sufy thru and thru.)
ENJOY
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