New Osso - "Enjoy Your Rabbit" (Stereogum Premiere)

As we mentioned, it was Bryce Dessner who first approached Sufjan Stevens about re-arranging the 2001 Chinese Zodiac song cycle Enjoy Your Rabbit for the New York string quartet Osso. They were likely on his radar because they'd previously done string arrangements for Illinois and My Brightest Diamond's Bring Me The Workhorse. Since Stevens liked the idea, Dessner commissioned the group to perform it at his Music Now Festival. In the end, various composers (and not Stevens) reinterpreted the tra...

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