Collaborating with drummer Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs

In the warm streets of summer he’s frozen by his thoughts as if it were winter already

and the occasional addition of swirly moog and staccato drum pad beats keep it from slipping into nostalgia

focusing his enveloping synthesizer pieces around a newfound rhythmic pulse

After quickly pressing the songs to vinyl

SUFJAN STEVENS - Seven Swans LP Minimal Wave Collaborating with drummer Brian ChaseMulti instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens made a couple of records that slipped under the radar before his third, the astoundingly lush post rock concept album GREETINGS FROM MICHIGAN, gained him critical attention and cult status. Seemingly bent on not repeating himself, Stevens scales down MICHIGAN's grandeur to a minimalist palette for SEVEN SWANS. Where the previous album was instrumentally comparable to Tortoise or Stereolab, SEVEN SWANS is