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April 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Mali Mali: As A Dog Dreams

Mali Mali As A Dog Dreams (Independent/Bandcamp) A couple of years ago, a gentle, beguiling, occasionally quirky set of songs found its way into my home and then my heart. I didn’t like the tile of the album, nor the band-name, and that didn’t matter at all – as it shouldn’t when the music is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, As A Dog Dreams, Bandcamp, Ben Tolich, Don McGlashan, Gather 'Round The Gooseclock, Mali Mali, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon ·

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March 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Sufjan Stevens (March 6, Wgtn)

Sufjan Stevens MFC Sunday, March 6 Sufjan Stevens wowed with his last visit to Wellington, but where that was a neon-splatter thrill-ride of shriek-jazz noise-rock culminating in a massive circus-like balloon and confetti dump, his festival performance this year is a different sort of intensity. A showcase for last year’s career-masterpiece album, Carrie & Lowell, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2016), Arts Festival, Bluebird, Carrie & Lowell, Dawn Landes, Dominion Post, Festival of the Arts, Gig Review, Gig Review: Sufjan Stevens (March 6, Live Gig, March 6, MFC, Monday, NZ Festival, Stuff.co.nz, Sufjan Stevens, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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March 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sufjan Stevens: Carrie and Lowell

Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Asthmatic Kitty It isn’t so much that Sufjan Stevens has put a foot wrong, more that he’s been too nimble, too keen to put feet all over the place, to stretch far and wide, to keep wiggling, always moving…(not all that often grooving too, mind). But it’s been hard for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Carrie and Lowell, Illinois, Michigan, Seven Swans, Sufjan Stevens ·

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October 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

New Zealand Festival: 26 Feb-20 March 2016 (Wellington)

Wellington’s New Zealand Festival saw the launch of its 2016 line-up earlier tonight. Plenty of highlights, so be sure to check the link there for the details – Miranda July will perform a keynote that’s part-lecture/part-performance and will take the audience through her artist-career from struggling enthusiast to short-story writer, filmmaker and novelist. There’s events […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), Archie Roach, Arts Festival, Calexico, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Festival of the Arts, http://www.festival.co.nz/, Julia Deans, Lincoln Centre Orchestra, Miranda July, New Zealand Festival, New Zealand Festival: 26 Feb-20 March 2016 (Wellington), NZ Festival, NZSO, Paul Kelly, Program Launch, Promo, Sufjan Stevens, The Chills, The Phoenix Foundation, The Verlaines, Wellington, Wgtn, Writers Week, Wynton Marsalis ·

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August 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Sisyphus: Sisyphus

Sisyphus Sisyphus Asthmatic Kitty/Secretly Canadian Sufjan Stevens – one of those artists it’s hard to keep up with. Technically it’s been four years since his last album – but that’s “full-length album” under the name Sufjan Stevens. There was another host of Christmas songs in another boxed-set of Eps, some classical/ish music and this – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Serengeti, Sisyphus, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Lux ·

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August 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

S. Carey: Range of Light

S. Carey Range of Light Jagjaguwar It’s interesting listening to S. Carey’s album, Range of Light and knowing it was recorded at Justin Vernon’s studio after Carey had toured with Vernon’s band. For Range of Light feels, and not to its detriment, like the material from Vernon’s first Bon Iver album if recorded in the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bon Iver, Jim O'Rourke, Justin Vernon, Range of Light, S. Carey, Sean Carey, Sufjan Stevens ·

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February 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Revival Hour: Scorpio Little Devil

The Revival Hour Scorpio Little Devil Antiphon Okay, I might have arrived a bit late to the party – but almost every song on The Revival Hour’s debut full-lengther, Scorpio Little Devil kinda feels like it has arrived a bit late for the party; party over and it’s to Lynch-ian karaoke/cabaret then. Hold Back, the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, DM Stith, John-Mark Lapham, Peter Gabriel, Scorpio Little Hour, Sufjan Stevens, The Earlies, The Revival Hour ·

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December 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Freelance Whales: Diluvia

Freelance Whales Diluvia Mom + Pop Music Who has time for a “grower” these days? Just when I thought I didn’t – I’ve been working through as many albums as I can this year, finding so many to love too – turns out I do actually. You see I keep coming back to Diluvia by […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Coldplay, Diluvia, Elbow, Freelance Whales, Grizzly Bear, Mew, Mumford & Sons, Sufjan Stevens ·

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August 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Sheep, Dog & Wolf: Egospect

Sheep, Dog & Wolf Egospect Lil’ Chief Sheep, Dog & Wolf is the recording alias of Daniel McBride. Better mention he’s 19 too because everyone else seems to think that’s super important. Egospect is his debut full-lengther – a clusterfuck of too-clever-for-their-own-good ideas-masquerading-as-songs; ideas stolen wholesale from attending Dirty Projectors and Bon Iver shows, most […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bon Iver, Daniel McBride, Dirty Projectors, Dog & Wolf, Egospect, Lil' Chief, Sheep, Sufjan Stevens ·

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June 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1948

Sufjan Stevens, All Delighted People EP (2010) Isn’t it funny how you can come and go with some artists. I loved Sufjan Stevens when I heard the Illinois album; in fact I all but became a disciple. I backtracked to the Michigan album – and then collected up everything. Then I heard The Age Of […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged All Delighted People EP, Djohariah, Illinois, Michigan, Sufjan Stevens, Vinyl ·

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