Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (w/ guest Matt Cook)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter and piano rocker Matt Cook () joins Bill and Brian to discuss Sufjan Stevens' The Age of Adz (2010, Asthmatic Kitty). Matt shares his story about discovering this album as he recovered from a coma (yes, seriously, it's a wild story!) and how he was won over despite not enjoying it at first. We get into Royal Robertson's influence on the album, whether or not to tag Sufjan with the 'genius' label, reevaluating our lives when faced with our own mortality, just what synth makes those sounds, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.3	And I'm Brian.
0:02.9	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.2	2010's The Age of Odds by Sufjohn Stevens.
0:49.6	So. The What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:59.6	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we finish it all off with a massive section of podcast where we do a track-by-track review.
1:00.2	We do, yes.
1:01.2	And we're not doing it alone this week.
1:02.8	Absolutely not.
1:03.8	Who is joining us this week, Brian?
1:05.9	We have a singer, songwriter, piano rock, and a good personal friend of mine, Matt Cook.
1:16.2	And we get into the differences between piano rock and singer-songwriter with him.
1:22.7	Yeah.
1:23.0	He explains, he breaks it down for us.
1:25.6	Yeah, Matt Cook, he's a guy from New Jersey, he's been around. I've
1:29.0	seen you play with him at John and Peters. That's right. Yeah, you have seen us play together. Yeah,
1:33.5	I think that was last year, if I remember, correct? That was a fun night. That's a good show.
1:37.0	Well, Sufion Stevens, and that I believe is how you pronounce his name is Sufion. Like there's a little bit of an E.
1:44.4	Yeah, there's a little bit of an E in there because, well, in the song Vesuvius, he sings Vesuvius,
1:50.6	and then he brings in Sufion with the three syllables.
1:55.3	So I'm pretty sure that most people don't try to pronounce that little extra third syllable.
2:00.6	It's like a half syllable.
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