Enjoy Your Rabbit [LP]

by Sufjan Stevens

Overview

Sufjan Stevens' second release, Enjoy Your Rabbit, is a vast departure from the pan-ethnic folk of his debut. Using almost no exterior samples, Stevens crafts an electronic, all-"instrumental" song cycle based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. While working within these considerably narrower confines, he still maps out a wide musical territory by using each symbol as a mode, each one exploring different textures and tempos and, in the process, evoking a surprising array of moods. At times eerie and ominous like a backwoods Autechre, other times sounding like more club-oriented fare, Stevens sometimes trades in bloops and bleeps for oblique glitches and crackles, but the underlying guiding principle is wide-eyed exploration that fills nearly every track with a sense of playfulness. Enjoy Your Rabbit never gets too serious, although at times it's very intense. Many tracks even have some sort of musical pun working just under the surface; for instance, "Year of the Horse" is by far the longest, clocking in at over 13 minutes, and "Year of the Ox" has a regular, heavy thudding beat. ~ Jason Nickey

Product Details

Release Date:	06/24/2014
Label:	Asthmatic Kitty
UPC:	0656605919614
Rank:	56699

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Year of the Asthmatic Cat
2. Year of the Monkey
3. Year of the Rat
4. Year of the Ox
5. Year of the Boar
6. Year of the Tiger
7. Year of the Snake
8. Year of the Sheep
9. Year of the Rooster

Disc 2

10. Year of the Dragon
11. Enjoy Your Rabbit
12. Year of the Dog
13. Year of the Horse
14. Year of Our Lord

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sufjan Stevens   Primary Artist
Liz Janes   Vocals

Technical Credits

Sufjan Stevens   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Instrumentation