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DOWNLOAD: Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit

Posted 1/8/2008 2:45 PM by rcrd lbl

Tags: electronic, experimental

Special treat coming your way today: three tracks off of Sufjan Stevens’ 2001 electronica album Enjoy Your Rabbit. For those of you who only know Sufjan as the insanely lauded, soft spoken indie superstar of Michigan and Illinois, prepare yourselves for a mild, yet pleasant, shock: Enjoy Your Rabbit is anything but banjos and butterfly wings, and actually relies heavily on Shibuya-kei, a ‘90s subculture of Japanese cut-and-paste electronic rock music epitomized by bands like Buffalo Daughter and Cornelius (just to give you some reference). The album’s concept—this is a Sufjan Stevens record after all-- is the Chinese zodiac cycle, thus each track represents an animal. It’s bizarre and awesome, and brings to question what the indie landscape would be like right now had Sufjan (arguably a strong influence on acts like the Arcade Fire and Clap your Hands Say Yeah) had continued in this vein of glitchy electronics and hadn’t taken a turn towards more traditional folk tendencies. Hm.

Download: Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Boar

Download: Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Tiger

Download: Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Dog

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