Album Rating: 4.5
To me, Impossible Soul as an EP would have been preferable to Age of Adz in any other form =P
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Album Rating: 2.8
Impossible Soul is GOATed Sufjan and wears its bloat better than anything else I've heard from him
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Too much cheerleader vocal repeating same phrase for ten minutes for me
It’s the very best and worst of Sufjan in one package which maybe is a valid career summation but most of the time I’d just listen to the last three minutes of it :D
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Age of Adz t/t is a groovy little number
Still think the opener and ‘Now That I’m Older’ are the best of ‘Adz’, pack the emotional wallop
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Yeah, nearly finished a Carrie re-listen and the highs are definitely higher but also strangely it is more samey than this one, really stands out going back to it.
Definitely remains the better album but has also made me think more of this one too, because it’s definitely not wall to wall better songs than the ones here.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I wasn’t aware just how important ‘Shade in the Shadow’ is in the tracklist, it’s this short little melodic palette cleanser among some good songs but they all be plodders tempo wise.
I shut up now
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last three or so minutes of Age of Adz is his actual career peak, amazing stuff
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Listening to it as we speak, often the second half of his songs are stronger yeah
Edit: so ‘Adz’ is still a bit ‘amazing song…not bothered song…amazing song’ for me, the ‘Postal Service’ wash I’m still not totally sold on - tracks 2 and 4 I enjoy less than anything here or on ‘Carrie’
Whisper it, but ‘Now That I’m Older’ is possibly as good as ‘4th of July’ though
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Album Rating: 4.0
Age of Adz is stuffed with quality, I just find the closer is a really daunting listen, rarely want to commit to it. But 'Vesuvius' is one of Sufjan's best, together with 'Futile Devices', 'Now that I'm older' and 'I want to be well'
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Album Rating: 4.0
The last few years I've realised sufjan is a monumental figure in the world of indie. I got into him at about the same time as the Arcade Fire (and maybe the National a bit later) and I always thought sufjan would be the lesser of the three in my listening habits, but looking at sufjan's career and my scoring, he easily eclipsed them in terms of importance.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm still settling my opinion on this but I'd be shocked if it landed below my 2nd favorite Sufjan. I haven't listened to C&L to compare like Doof has but that album is pretty essential and iconic in a way that would be hard to overtake, but I love that this has a lot of the same intimacy of that with a great balance of his more reserved and maximalist styles along with great songwriting across the board.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
fogz - Adz stays a 4.0 for me thanks to the quality but again, track 6, another good but non essential track.
Half the album always felt like stylistic and/or conceptual padding but there are six of Sufjan’s best on there and that equates to a 4.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Carrie and Lowell is a masterpiece for sure. This is beautiful. The rest of his discog for me is pretty hit or miss. Feel like I was bit overexposed to Sufjan in college, so coming back to him now is really nice.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Seeing Sufjan Stevens on the Age of Adz tour was the best concert I've ever been to
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I can imagine 'Age of Adz' would come across best in a live setting
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Album Rating: 4.0
Age of Adz is GOAT'd for me. Though I think the album could've had some fat trimmed, primarily the middle of the album. Futile Devices, Too Much, Age of Adz, Vesuvius, All for Myself, I Want to Be Well, and Impossible Soul are all top tier Suf tracks.
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I kind of think that Illinois is the only Sufjan album that I actually wanna listen to at this point, but I do love that album, so idk
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Album Rating: 4.0
First 4 tracks of Adz are phenomenal, but I've never listened to Now That I'm Older and enjoyed it. And it's up and down from there.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
'Now That I'm Older' is the best one
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Album Rating: 4.5
Ima have to give this another go all these hype 5 comments make me want to love this so bad aaaaaaaaa
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