Sufjan Stevens / Bryce Dessner / Nico Muhly Planetarium (2 Lp's) LP Die-cut Printed Inner and the feelings of isolation

and the feelings of isolation and insignificance that she has experienced while growing up surrounded by a vast body of water on a planet surrounded by an endlessly expanding universe

When it came time to record Magic Fire

funk and jazz

Afterimages is an ambient album at heart

this is just dying to be looped up

Sufjan Stevens / Bryce Dessner / Nico Muhly Planetarium (2 Lp's) LP Die-cut Printed Inner and the feelings of isolationA project that began as a commissioned work by the Muziekgebouw Eindhoven for composer Nico Muhly, Planetarium premiered in 2012 but was transformed by the arrival of this collaborative recording five years later. With Muhly, singer lyricist Sufjan Stevens, the National guitarist Bryce Dessner, and drummer James McAlister receiving equal credit for the music, it also features a string quartet, seven trombonists, a keyboardist, and numerous instrument