age age pronounced album american singer songwriter released october stevens sixth studio album song based length album years release illinois album features heavy use electronics augmented orchestration takes inspiration apocalyptic artwork artist stevens use electronics marked radical departure previous work notably seven michigan unlike illinois lyrics explore events characters setting deal instead themes emotions personal level critics praised intimacy album divided change style stevens taken nonetheless appeared best lists including paste new_york_times mtv commercially album gave stevens career best week sales date highest charting album date peaking billboard background recording released album extra material left illinois originally conceived double album titled album christmas music titled songs christmas produced parts following release stevens expressed dissatisfaction music stating interview pitchfork_media getting tired voice getting tired getting tired trumpet stevens admitted states project attempt write album promotional gimmick seriously intended complete year released orchestral suite accompanying home film dedicated brooklyn queens expressway interview stevens stated kinda mechanical way approaching music basically narrative long form opened things confused things don think fully recovered process august prior announcement stevens released delighted people week later announced age released october interviews stevens stated suffered mysterious viral infection affected nervous system experienced chronic pain forced stop working music months said age ways result process working health issues getting touch physical self think record obsessed sensation melodrama previously collaborated stevens backing vocalist albums illinois solo performance track impossible soul provides backing vocals album song sampled fade away sampled hood politics artwork artwork self proclaimed prophet louisiana album cover interior rolling_stone said uses artwork music evokes visionary stevens interested work recording music friend documentary artist said studied work felt weird affinity guy story life began text appears artwork says process stayed long time started come lyrics songs writing musical style themes musical style age marked radical departure musical style stevens previous album illinois summarised changes stevens replacing lines vocals sentimental melodies hip hop sic beats heavily filtered vocals work electronic album regarded close style album critics highlighted track futile devices consistent earlier acoustic work said album tracks pop songs based sound experimentation noise contrasted way album listeners understood interest electronic music noise sound illinois described populist record themes age departs geography based concepts stevens previous albums announcement seriously intended complete project expected work continue states project begun michigan continued illinois album contains conceptual instead focusing themes personal intimate stevens label describes themes personal love sex death disease illness anxiety suicide focus album love theme overlaps spirituality stevens address lover divine power important theme mortality song older noted repeatedly acknowledging mortality importance making life acknowledging themes album described having songs love death reign imaginative landscape ghosts space travellers release reception age debuted number seven billboard copies sold giving stevens career best week sales date opened copies highest charting album date peaking billboard placed number billboard rock albums independent albums alternative albums folk albums lists placed number digital albums albums lists album placed albums lists countries critical reception age received widespread critical acclaim release metacritic assigns rating reviews mainstream critics album received average score based reviews indicating generally favorable reviews frontier psychiatrist described album musical masterpiece blends analog digital sounds reflects love loss life death humanity described stevens strange sure genius uncut commented album provides plenty evidence argue important songwriters generation alexis_petridis guardian said album goes bit incredible tune genuinely remarkable genuinely enjoyable nme similarly commented album moments heart stopping foot bill bbc remarked point album individual moments brilliance overall let self conscious discussed track album reviewers impossible soul minutes length comprises overall album pitchfork reviewer described track having engaging ideas artists muster career reviewer criticized middle sections epic train wreck saying closing minutes come breath fresh air thirty reviewer mixed reception track commented break album listeners describing successful proclamation love way accolades reviewing sites included age best lists track listing songs written composed note vinyl release album movement minutes impossible soul moved end want reasons space time restrictions personnel album liner notes provides limited information personnel credited artwork pieces bar space performs solo impossible soul provides backing vocals sang backing vocals older chart positions
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