Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People

Here's my stance on Sufjan Stevens: he is incredibly talented and able to traverse an alarmingly wide amount of genres. He can even blend those genres together in a way that few others can do. His voice is expressive but never over the top. His only problem is that he seems incapable of embracing any amount of brevity. Even this short EP contains one eleven minute song and one seventeen minute song. The rest average out to about five amounts. It gives him the ability to spread his wings into different "movements" of songs but it can wear ya down. With all that in mind, he seems to be exploring some new territory here and I'm enjoying what I'm hearing. I look forward to the full-length that will follow this.. even if I have to listen to it in segments. [sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com]