Rent low astral superheroes... Sufjan Stevens at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Photography: Roberta Parkin/RedfernsSufjan Stevens is a compulsively restless artist, but his last reversal is quite extraordinary. For its sixth album, The Age of Adz, the cult U.S. singer flees his usual brain folk-pop to electronica barbed, discordant, a gesture reminiscent of turn-of-the-Millennium of stylistic Radiohead jump from OK Computer Kid.
Sufjan StevensDome, BrightonOn 14 May.Box Office:01273 709709Then touring.
Stevens spoke of the existential suffering of a "breakdown" after the success of its predecessor album, 2005 Illinois and its new music certainly sounds the result of long nights and dark of the soul. But with typical panache he turned this introspective, troubled glitch-pop in an epic live production, enhanced by spectacular images and played by a set of 10 pieces dressed in dayglo.
His earnest guitar rock fans may balk at the techno rhythms and synthesizers banks, but it works because Stevens is a prodigious composer who remains concentrated on the fragility of the emotions. Too and I Walked may be knobby slabs of electro-pop noir, but they still define the numbness and despair that descend to the undesirable end of a relationship; the portentous, Beck - like Get real right Get wrong with discrete nostalgia.
Interruptions Stevens at night for a 10-minute on his weathered modus operandi address-"I assumes that I end my banjo and began to find d-flat on a Tom - Tom plug-in Logic"-, but it did not need to worry about. "." It closes one hour for two-and-half complacent but extremely exciting with the techno-catharsis 25 minutes of Soul Impossible and then only dressed as a superhero astral because of low-rent, it is clear that it will remain a singular artist to what kind of musicHe chooses to live.
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