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Sufjan Stevens

A singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Detroit-born Sufjan Stevens started venturing into the music world while attending Hope College as a member of Marzuki, a folk-rock band based in Holland, MI. Following the ... A singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Detroit-born Sufjan Stevens started venturing into the music world while attending Hope College as a member of Marzuki, a folk-rock band based in Holland, MI. Following the release of two full-length albums with the group, Stevens decided to go solo in late 1999, investing fully in a career that was waiting to shine by itself. Sun Came, his debut album, appeared in 2000, confirming his superior musical command, complex instrumentation, and sparkling melodies. The promotion of the disc included playing on the road with the Danielson Famile, with whom he began regularly working. The heavily electronic Enjoy Your Rabbit, a song cycle concerning the animals of the Chinese zodiac, hit record stores in 2001, followed in 2003 by Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State, a 15-track conceptual piece produced and performed by Stevens -- he played over 20 instruments -- that placed his home state under the writer's microscope. Despite the record's narrowed focus, it was among the best reviewed that year and made many critics' year-end lists. In 2004, Stevens released his follow-up, Seven Swans, a thoughtful, spiritual, and quasi-mystical collection of stand-alone songs produced by Danielson Famile mastermind Daniel Smith.

Stevens returned to his ambitious "states" project in 2005 with the epic Illinoise (extended title: Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come on Feel the Illinoise), which became one of the best-reviewed album of 2005, spawning accolades both regional and international -- it was also smacked with a lawsuit concerning the depiction of DC Comics icon Superman on the cover, who was eventually covered by a balloon sticker and subsequently removed from further pressings. The 21-track Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album and the five-disc Christmas box set Songs for Christmas arrived in 2006, followed in 2007 by the instrumental BQE, a self-described "symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York City's infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway" that was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and performed on three consecutive nights (November 1-3, 2007) in front of a film shot by Stevens, who had officially relocated to New York in 2000. Run Rabbit Run, a version of 2001's Enjoy Your Rabbit performed by the Osso String Quartet, and a recorded version, BQE, arrived in October 2009. In 2010, Stevens surprised everybody by releasing All Delighted People, a nearly 60-minute EP of new music; an all-new studio album, the surreal electronic pop manifesto The Age of Adz, arrived later, in October of that year. In 2012 Stevens released the five-EP box set Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10, the sequel to 2006's Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5.

Mario Mesquita Borges
AllMusic.com
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Sufjan Stevens – Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell cover)
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Tape	Songs	Comments	Author
Really Good Love Songs! Volume 1 Perfect love songs for that special someone!	21	17	Audi0bl00d
Songs to Fall Asleep To These are the songs I usually listen to when I'm lying in bed late at night trying to fall asleep.	9	25	rosiepeverell
Winter. Travel. Love. This is the mix for Winter, for snow, for cold. This is the mix for the long public transport rides, for the long walks. Mainly, this is t...	18	2	AnonymousPlatypus
Trying to Forget You Volume 2	29	3	taterbug1723
songs for a rainy day. Here are the songs ive put together that do one of three things, usually all in one. This is a mix of songs that make you think, that make y...	18	6	wagseee
Music from The OC I don't even watch the OC, but I've found out that apparently they play some pretty decent music on the show :)	57	1	indiexchick
For Those Empty Nights This is for all of those nights where I wasn't quite depressed. I wasn't angry. I wasn't happy. I was just apathetic.	13	3	snkpoe
Putting the Fun in Funeral Another funeral mix - how original, huh?	13	11	TheRandomGuy
Love Is All	15	0	PaintMeAnything
one year after the broken bones My boyfriend made this for me for Valentine's Day, one year after we first met (He called 911 when I got into an accident and broke both my ...	20	1	cassadilla
Postapocalyptic Party Songs for the end of the world.	15	0	Mellow_Harsher
Malcontent Songs for the lonely, heartbroken, and wrathful.	15	1	SirenSongofSadness
Chicago songs about a city	11	3	blamography
Ballads of Love and Hate Vol. 3	30	0	littlehead
Halloween Howls A mixtape for the spookiest of holidays. Monsters! Mayhem! Music!	45	0	Mellow_Harsher
A Compilation of Folk I made a mix for a friend of mine and was really satisfied with it and thought to post it here. Enjoy?	23	0	NovemberGhost
The Super Duper Fantastic Amazingly Terrific Uber-Stellar Adventure! I do not know what this mixtape is supposed to be about. It can be a story or a random assortment of garbage. Whatever.. ya know?	14	4	Pieman1994
Teiladnam's Spectacular Mix From March Which Was 2 Months Ago But Whatever Twice a year I fill a CD with songs and/or bands I want to listen to, with lots of attention paid to how well they fit together. This is the...	20	2	teiladnam
Rainy Sunday Afternoon just some stuff i've been listening to lately, on rainy afternoons	33	1	eowyn797
Graveyard Girl	14	2	PaintMeAnything
Post Break-Up Songs Like many people, I have been in a relationship with someone I cared about. What's more, it has sadly ended. It has been more than a year si...	15	2	FrazTHe
November	30	0	mremix
Special Songs :)	17	0	chainreaction
January	21	0	mremix
Post Mater A CD I made for myself after my mom passed away suddenly from cancer in 2007. These are the songs that ran through my head constantly, or h...	19	1	JackTHorn
soundtrack to my life	17	0	superboots
:3 songs that remind me of someone~	7	0	wendyswing13
Hail to the Thief A playlist for a girl who could've stole your heart but went for the wallet instead.	14	0	heyagentk
2015	32	0	scratcher
Act II The beginning of the third out of four phases	49	0	kirs10
Remind me never to listen to this while high.	7	1	voxel
And this is from my heart For him.	15	0	dollylux
Please head North get me through this year	10	0	jejolie
Duck Music Serving Suggestion: Listen straight through to the end while picnicking on a canoe with your significant other. Or feel free to serenade y...	14	3	balloonbarrage
My life in a small tape It's pretty much just songs that I love and mean a lot to me.	12	0	frontman17
llllllllll	34	1	mathersaddiction
xmess putting the mess back into christmas	30	1	fkngslp
Les Montagnes de Taupineres made for him	11	0	snfavreau
Deez Nuts this mixtape is about deez nuts	4	0	Metre7
Quarry Hymns	11	0	PaintMeAnything
the purples a rhythmic, bittersweet & slightly existential collection of alternative goodies... mostly melodic rock and some instrumentals (the instrume...	9	0	sandpc
decently epic soundtrack Great music. recommend to add. or just get into great music.	15	0	wagseee
things that remind me, of you	3	0	thefirstdaysofspring
All Time Favourites	8	1	rosiepeverell
This is My Appreciation To You And Pride To Myself The sounds of heart beats made of laughter, bitterness, and romance. It's light of dawn coming up from invisible night of struggling. It's a...	11	3	suinfinitor
Folksy lovely eclecticum The breeze, joyful sunshine, the moon through the trees, melodies, vox, and instrumentation with character, with a bit of love and the meani...	17	0	truestloveandtea
March 2012.	11	1	XNeverMind
My Life As Of Late As of late, I was dumped (and even without that) my life has been a little up and down. These are the songs I've lived in lately.	8	2	woahsydney12
iTunes iTunes Playlist	29	1	puibmka
Slow Down	12	0	littlehead
Your special day This mixtape is for someone very special in my life.	12	2	lovesautomatic
Audrey The best friend I've ever had has changed her entire personality. I can understand that; her mother died just months ago in a plane crash. B...	50	0	IsoldeGS
Tunes I'm loving this week! Eh, yeah	9	0	PJudge
Expressways of Chicagoland Drive faster!	35	0	kirs10
wanna see each other again? songs for the vanished and faded away	54	6	kirs10
Chica's Tape Natalia	10	0	ChunkyJ
grayarea For thos lost souls like me, in music we find who we are :)	7	2	Blurtopia
songs to fall in love to on your way falling into love land or lonely land either ones works	5	0	ellabellabus
Keep It Down 2	3	1	hollowfellow
Beautiful Music	16	0	CorrinMarvelyn
Every winter ...I build a church on the strength of my faith	14	0	kirs10
Fell	2	0	olivercollective
Fundamental laws of the universe (as we understand them)	16	0	kirs10
Dave-Year	5	0	everythingafter
Once apon a time	3	4	NWroller
Low Times Things to feel down about	8	1	panic_manic
Mix	7	3	Blague
my mixtape	5	0	xorachellynn

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