Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Genre(s):
Indie
Rock: Folk-Rock
Other
Discography:
The Avalanche (Outtakes and Extras From Illinois Album)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 21
Songs for Christmas
Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
Illinois
Year: 2005
Tracks: 22
A Sun Came
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
Enjoy Your Rabbit
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
A singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Sufjan Stevens started his venture in the euphony world as a member of Marzuki, a folk-rock band based in Holland, MI. Following the button of 2 full-length albums with the group, Stevens decided to go solo in late 1999, investment to the full in a life history that was wait to shine by itself. During subsequent months, Stevens affected to New York City, where he continued dedicating himself full-time to his solo recordings. Sunlight Came, his debut album, appeared in 2000, positive his superior musical command, building complex instrumentation, and sparkling melodies. The promotion of the disk included playing on the road with the Danielson Famile, with whom he began regularly working. Enjoy Your Rabbit, his moment album, attain record stores in 2001, underlining one time more his strange instrumentation and splendid compositions. In accession to his solo work, Stevens too offered his contribution to the album 1942 for Soul-Junk, on which he participated amply as a multi-instrumental musician. While preparing a newfangled collection of songs, Stevens appeared on several benefit compilation discs, including Seen/Unseen, which featured Frank Black, Giant Sand, and 16 Horsepower. 2003 proverb the spill of Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State, a 15-track conceptual piece produced and performed by Stevens -- he played over 20 instruments -- that set his menage 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-spot Swans, which was produced by Danielson Famile mastermind Daniel Smith. He returned to his ambitious "states" contrive in 2005 with Land of Lincoln, which was followed by The Avalanche in 2006.
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