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A routinely great artist, much of Sufjan's universal appeal comes from his skills as a gifted narrator, pairing personal musings on love and devotion with commentary on American culture, whilst welding folk and electronica, the ambient and existential.
Without saying which version is better (I love them both for different reasons, 10/10 on both ends) the pressing itself is magnificent. Doctor’s appointments, hospital visits, constant anxiety; both of us felt completely hopeless, and my condition only worsened.It’s hard to know how the faithful who have been living with this album for half a decade will take its reinvention. You have a different Twin Fantasy experience to me; you have a different reason as to why this album is so important to you.
Twin Fantasy is not a perfect record—the latter half is bogged down by soundscape-y passages and spoken word, for one thing—but that only validates it as a powerful document of teenaged pain and longing. But the connection he makes to the music of others is nothing compared to the density of the internal references. From the very beginning, alone in his bedroom, in his last weeks of high school, he knew he was writing anthems. It could’ve been the people around me such as my partner at the time or my incredibly worried mother or just the hope that maybe, just maybe things will get better. The story he tells is not about what happens, but what almost happens, what he wants to happen, what he wishes didn’t happen.Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it. Bodys” has the gleaming pulse of the Strokes, and finds Toledo commenting on the song in real-time as it unfolds—“Is it the chorus yet? There is the occasional moment that I prefer on this version, as well as the whole of Cute Thing which is much better than its 2011 counterpart. Post production and mixing took place between Decade Music Studios and Will Toledo's apartment, [5] [6] with most effects, stems and final mixes run through the studio's vintage mixing console. It's a sad commentary when the best album of the year IMO is just a re-recording of an album from 7 years prior.