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Mar 25, 2020Described by Stevens and Brams as a New Age-inspired album, Aporia accomplishes exactly that, functioning as a recovered soundtrack to a long-lost, fictitious sci-fi film.
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UncutMar 26, 202021 haunting, electronic vignettes. [May 2020, p.35]
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Mar 24, 2020Overall, it was an excellent example of electronic production by two masters at the craft. A lot of instrumentally based albums move all as one piece, but “Aporia” was a combination of tracks each made as an individual piece creating a distinct musical picture. Listen with headphones.
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Mar 24, 2020‘Aporia’ certainly asks a degree of patience from its listener – the kind often reserved for previously-existing fans of Stevens – to realise its full potential, but over the last few decades the number of listeners able to give this patience has grown exponentially, just in time for Stevens to push boundaries that bit further once again.
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Apr 1, 2020Aporia, by no means, is going to be considered an essential Sufjan album. However, for electronic obsessives and longtime followers, the record will feel like absolute candy.
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Mar 24, 2020It’s an unexpected but fitting swansong: like Brams’ presence in Stevens’ life and work, it is a gentle guide, and an encouragement to give our thoughts space.
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Apr 27, 2020The album is quiet. The 21 tracks are short, slow and soothing.
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Mar 30, 2020This is sometimes an aural journey through a labyrinth, but it never sounds like the participants are lost.
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Mar 24, 2020Aporia is foremost an exercise in collaboration — a meeting between two perpetually entangled personalities, an ode to their decades-long father-son relationship and a fitting conclusion to their musically enriched partnership.
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Mar 30, 2020There is something profoundly lovely about seeing Stevens safe in such a strange, adventurous effort, supported by Brams and the rest of his found family.
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Mar 26, 2020As a soundtrack album to meditate to, Aporia is pleasant, but there’s no denying that the absence of Stevens’s typically ornate songcraft is keenly felt.
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MojoMar 24, 2020These 21 carefully edited electronic jams have a distinctly new age feel, glacier-sized slabs of ambience occasionally disrupted by undulating or cluttering beats. [May 2020, p.89]
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Q MagazineMar 24, 2020A montage of brief yet expansive instrumentals, it veers from the richly choral to the dissonant, from busy polyrhythms to spare, awestruck synth-symphonies. [May 2020, p.112]
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Apr 13, 2020An album can't wear the pants of Carpenter, Carlos, and Oldfield, all of whom crafted electronic epics built around unforgettable melodies and precise attention to detail when Stevens and Bram hop from one track to the next before any of their soundscapes journey beyond the front porch.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 19
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Mixed: 6 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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Mar 29, 2020An amazing experience different from his previous albums but an interesting purpose
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Mar 24, 2020
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May 28, 2020Este álbum me recuerda mucho a Bjork, lo cual me hace apreciarle mucho más, Stevens hace música excelente.