Name: Planetarium
Brand: Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

4AD-0009-1

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-06-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

191400000919

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

An album composed by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister. Flanked by a string quartet and a consort of seven trombones, this unique collaborative ensemble have assembled an expansive song cycle that explores the Sun, the Moon, the planets and other celestial bodies of our solar system (and beyond) through soundscape, song, science and myth. The subject of the album is not just the wilderness of outer space, but also the interior space of human consciousness and how it engages with divinity, depravity, society and self - what does it mean to be human? A musical and aesthetic journey as far-reaching as its subject: from lush piano ballads to prog-rock political anthems, curious electronic backbeats to classical cadenzas, which occasionally give way to ambient interludes and majestic brass chorales, buttressed by a percussive drive that keeps the momentum skyward. In spite of all the experimentation in sound and style, Sufjan's vocals provide a clear and coherent centre of gravity, and includes some of his most diverse vocal performances to date (from soft hush to guttural scream); whether he's singing through effects pedals, vocoders, auto-tune or not, his voice delivers an ambitious flight map through the cosmos.

Planetarium

Music US