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Sufjan Stevens - A Beginner's Mind (2021) [Official Digital Download]

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Sufjan Stevens - A Beginner's Mind (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Sufjan Stevens - A Beginner's Mind (2021) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 45:27 minutes | 493 MB
Rock | Label: Asthmatic Kitty, Official Digital Download

After having the promise of post-pandemic hope seemingly pulled out from under the world like a cheap rug, most of us could do with a balm. Songwriters Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine deliver the goods in the form of a truly comforting diversion. Stevens, of course, loves a concept album: He's made them about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Michigan and Illinois, and his mother's tragic life and death. This time, he teams with lo-fi California singer-songwriter De Augustine, who has made two albums for Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label. The theme is philosophical musings on movies, ranging from Old Hollywood (All About Eve) to monster flicks (The Thing), horror (Hellraiser III, Night of the Living Dead), modern classics (She's Gotta Have It, Silence of the Lambs; the album is dedicated to director Jonathan Demme who died in 2017), even action (Point Break). Opener "Reach Out"—based on director Wim Wenders' fantasy Wings of Desire—is a mindbender: Is this sublime harmony and gentle guitar Simon & Garfunkel circa 1965? Then there’s the twee and wistful, almost medieval folk of “Olympus” whose chanted “There’s no place like home” chorus might make you think The Wizard of Oz but is, in fact, based on Clash of the Titans and focuses on the love story of Perseus and Andromeda: "It's the light on your hand/ It's the touch of my wristband." The magical land instead informs the dreamy "Back to Oz" although the source material here is the 1985 Fairuza Balk-starring sequel Return to Oz; it could almost pass for a Tame Impala song with twinkling melody, smooth guitar and the "get it right, follow my heart" message. Said De Augustine: "In the film, Dorothy returns to the world of Oz to find its landscape in ruins and its citizens frozen in stone. Only she can find the ruby slippers and return peace to Oz. Only we can save ourselves, but we first have to remember who we truly are." He and Stevens approached the songwriting process with a sense of shoshin—the Zen Buddhist concept (translating to "beginner's mind") that encourages a lack of preconceptions and an embrace of eagerness. Which is pretty good advice when you're using the movie "Bring It On Again"—not even the original, but the 2004 sequel

TRACKLIST

1. Sufjan Stevens - Reach Out
2. Sufjan Stevens - Lady Macbeth In Chains
3. Sufjan Stevens - Back To Oz
4. Sufjan Stevens - The Pillar Of Souls
5. Sufjan Stevens - You Give Death A Bad Name
6. Sufjan Stevens - Beginner’s Mind
7. Sufjan Stevens - Olympus
8. Sufjan Stevens - Murder And Crime
9. Sufjan Stevens - (This Is) The Thing
10. Sufjan Stevens - It’s Your Own Body And Mind
11. Sufjan Stevens - Lost In The World
12. Sufjan Stevens - Fictional California
13. Sufjan Stevens - Cimmerian Shade
14. Sufjan Stevens - Lacrimae

foobar2000 1.6.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2021-09-23 20:22:27

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Analyzed: Sufjan Stevens / A Beginner's Mind
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.30 dB -12.97 dB 3:43 01-Reach Out
DR8 -0.30 dB -10.67 dB 3:42 02-Lady Macbeth In Chains
DR7 -0.12 dB -9.64 dB 4:12 03-Back To Oz
DR9 -0.30 dB -11.71 dB 3:10 04-The Pillar Of Souls
DR8 -0.29 dB -11.17 dB 4:07 05-You Give Death A Bad Name
DR9 -1.26 dB -12.45 dB 2:15 06-Beginner’s Mind
DR9 -0.30 dB -11.90 dB 3:07 07-Olympus
DR10 -0.30 dB -13.01 dB 3:30 08-Murder And Crime
DR9 -0.83 dB -11.79 dB 2:49 09-(This Is) The Thing
DR8 -0.30 dB -11.31 dB 2:27 10-It’s Your Own Body And Mind
DR9 -0.30 dB -11.06 dB 3:10 11-Lost In The World
DR8 -0.30 dB -12.01 dB 2:51 12-Fictional California
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.10 dB 4:19 13-Cimmerian Shade
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.18 dB 2:08 14-Lacrimae
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1370 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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