Sufjan Stevens – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonSufjan Stevens is a compulsively restless artist, but his latest volte face is quite extraordinary. For his sixth album, The Age of Adz, the cult US singer-songwriter eschewed his usual cerebral folk-pop in favour of barbed, discordant electronica, a move reminiscent of Radiohead's turn-of-the-millennium stylistic leap from OK Computer to Kid A.Stevens has spoken of suffering an "existential breakdown" after the success of the album's predecessor, 2005's Illinois, and ...

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