A Sun Came

A Sun Came

Infobox Album | Name = A Sun Came
Type = Album
Artist = Sufjan Stevens


Released = June 13 2000
Recorded = 1998,
2nd Ed. Track 20 2001, Track 21 2004
Genre = Folk rock
Length = 69:56
2nd Ed. 78:52
Label = Asthmatic Kitty
Producer = Sufjan Stevens
Reviews =
*AllMusicGuide Rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kuvyxd0b3ol7 link]
*Pitchfork Media (6.0/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22058/Sufjan_Stevens_A_Sun_Came_2nd_Edition link] |
Last album =
This album = "A Sun Came"
(2000)
Next album = "Enjoy Your Rabbit"
(2001)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = 2004 Reissue Cover
Type = Album
Background = lightsteelblue


Lower caption =

"A Sun Came" is a folk rock music album by Sufjan Stevens, released in 2000. It was reissued on Asthmatic Kitty Records 4 years later.

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Among Stevens' back catalog, "A Sun Came" is notable for being recorded on 4 track. As noted in Allmusic review of the album, the album explores many types of ethnic music from throughout the globe, ranging from Celtic, Indian, Middle Eastern, Moroccan, Far Eastern and American folk music [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifpxq90ldje] .

Stevens himself has described the album's sound as incorporating "traditional pop music, medieval instrumentation with Middle Eastern inflections, tape loops, digital samples, literary vocals, manic percussion, woodwinds, sitar, amp distortion and Arabic chants" [http://asthmatickitty.com/music.php?releaseID=9] .

Like many Stevens albums that would follow, features a multitude of instruments ranging from banjo, sitar, oboe and xylophone. All in all the album features Stevens playing fourteen instruments [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22058-a-sun-came-2nd-edition] .

"Joy! Joy! Joy!" was recorded for the 2001 re-release and "You Are the Rake," a reworking of "Rake," was recorded for the 2004 re-release.

"Belly Button" and "Satan's Saxophone" feature high pitched field recordings with absurdist humor reminiscent of the calendar dated tracks off Beck's "Stereopathetic Soulmanure" (1994).

Track listing

#"We Are What You Say" – 5:20
#"A Winner Needs a Wand" – 5:24
#"Rake" – 2:48
#"Siamese Twins" – 0:15
#"Demetrius" – 6:01
#"Dumb I Sound" – 5:49
#"Wordsworth's Ridge (For Fran Frike)" – 4:54
#"Belly Button" – 0:09
#"Rice Pudding" – 2:24
#"A Loverless Bed (Without Remission)" – 6:17
#"Godzuki" – 0:36
#"Super Sexy Woman" – 2:42
#"The Oracle Said Wander" – 5:39
#"Happy Birthday" – 2:45
#"Jason" – 6:10
#"Kill" – 4:26
#"Ya Leil" – 5:38
#"A Sun Came" – 2:11
#"Satan's Saxophones" – 2:31
#"Joy! Joy! Joy!" (reissue bonus track) – 3:23
#"You Are the Rake" (reissue bonus track) – 3:02


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