DrownedInSound — This week's content-themed Spotify playlist featuring tracks from Belle & Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, Esben & The Witch, Efterklang, Magnetic Man and some more. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

NME — Performance based on the singer-songwriter's work will take place on November 5 and 6 more info

I Like Music — The first full-length album since 2005's Illinois, The Age Of Adz, is now streaming in full on his bandcamp website more info

Guardian Music — A dash of Arcade Fire here, a soupçon of Sufjan Stevens there – this Reykjavík band craft compellingly lovely songsThis eight-piece from Reykjavik are pretty big in Iceland, having topped the charts with their debut album Sleepdrunk Seasons. Comb... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Stevens writes music in a way that always feels personal, and often thrillingly private.Stevens writes music in a way that always feels personal, and often thrillingly private. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — “We cannot think of any art of our time as latter-day cave paintings,” wrote the art historian Paul Arnett in a recent essay about African American vernacular art. Confronting the work of “primitives” like Royal Robertson – whose magic-mark... more info

KEXP Seattle — Local band The Moondoggies, not only our recent guests from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge, but also our guests live in-studio today at noon! It’s another big week for new releases… maybe not for blockbusters, but the ones that get fans frothing at... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Drowned in Sound interviews singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. DiS: I read an interview with Jonathan Franzen recently, someone who’s obviously also attracted to large-scale projects, and he said something about how after every time he's completed a... more info

DrownedInSound — It is 9am Eastern Standard Time when DiS calls Sufjan Stevens at home in Brooklyn and he is wide-awake and affable, even as a temperamental connection threatens to derail proceedings. The last-minute, primitive nature of The Age of Adz, outsider art,... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The new Sufjan Stevens album, The Age of Adz is out tomorrow in a week filled with wonderful releases. The long awaited Antony and the Johnsons' Swanlights and Belle and Sebastian's Write About Love are also in stores this... more info