album · October 12, 2010
The Age of Adz
Asthmatic Kitty RecordsSee this day
alternativeelectronicindie rock
The Age of Adz" is a maximalist electronic album that eschews Stevens's previous acoustic arrangements for dense, intricate soundscapes and auto-tuned vocals.
- Recorded and mixed at the Sound of Music in Richmond Hill, New York, with Stevens producing alongside his collaborators.
- The album's title is a corruption of the name of the 1979 film "All My Life," starring William Shatner, which was a biopic of folk singer Judee Sill.
- "The Age of Adz" reached number 30 on the Billboard 200 chart, representing a more niche commercial reception compared to his earlier work.
Sufjan Stevens is a Michigan-born composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his ambitious, often conceptual, indie folk and electronic albums. "The Age of Adz," released in 2010, found Stevens moving away from his established grand narrative style towards a more experimental electronic sound.
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