DrownedInSound — Although not an unqualified success, The Age of Adz is an audacious, eminently enjoyable offering. Peer into it long enough and a decisive, highly personal work reveals itself, from a singer whose deep reserves of curiosity and invention show little ... more info

Guardian Music — (Asthmatic Kitty)Since 2005's Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens has become more composer/arranger than singer-songwriter, guesting on albums and hymning the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. His latest LP was inspired not by a US road, but by paranoiac spiritualis... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Sufjan Stevens talks to the Irish Times about his new album, The Age of Adz (out October 12th). The Globe and Mail reviews the album. BBC News interviews Jonathan Franzen about his new novel, Freedom. The Guardian lists 10 of... more info

The Telegraph — Sufjan Stevens's The Age of Adze is exhilarating and innovative. Rating: * * * * more info

Guardian Music — First up on this week's podcast, Ben Beaumont-Thomas speaks to Cee Lo Green, a rapper and singer who got his start with Atlanta's Goodie Mob before going on to form Gnarls Barkley with Danger Mouse. Green explains why he's like a kung-fu master, and ... more info

Guardian Music — (Asthmatic Kitty)Last year, Sufjan Stevens announced that he was abandoning his loudly trumpeted project to write and release an album about each of America's 50 states. He'd managed a grand total of two. It was hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy.... more info

Detroit Free Press — Sufjan Stevens: 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Royal Oak Music Theatre, $30. Sold out. Torche: with High on Fire and Kylesa, 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Majestic Theatre, $15. Alejandro Escovedo: with the Sensitive Boys, 8 p.m. Oct. 14. The Magic Bag, $20. more info

Music For Ants — When Sufjan Stevens’s new album Age of Adz hit the web, apart from the auto-tune section in “Impossible Soul”, the most talked thing about the album was the multiple F-bomb drops in the song “I Want To Be Well”. Rewind a couple months back ... more info

Guardian Music — You're more likely to hear MGMT or Grizzly Bear on a hip-hop record than James Brown these days. So is the art of crate digging gone for good?"Last LP we got down right, showed all these corny motherfuckers what hip-hop's supposed to sound like." So ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The Age Of Adz is now available to stream in full glory until it’s 10/12 release date. This is probably because of it’s leak on Saturday. If you missed it, I live blogged what I thought of the album upon my first listen. Stream the album below, v... more info