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Sufjan Stevens' second release, Enjoy Your Rabbit, is a vast departure from the pan-ethnic folk of his debut. Using almost no exterior samples, Stevens crafts an electronic, all-"instrumental" song cycle based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. While working within these considerably narrower confines, he still maps out a wide musical territory by using each symbol as a mode, each one exploring different textures and tempos and, in the process, evoking a surprising array of moods. At times eerie and ominous like a backwoods Autechre, other times sounding like more club-oriented fare, Stevens sometimes trades in bloops and bleeps for oblique glitches and crackles, but the underlying guiding principle is wide-eyed exploration that fills nearly every track with a sense of playfulness.
Tracklist
1 Year Of The Asthmatic Cat
2 Year of the Monkey
3 Year of the Rat
4 Year of the Ox
5 Year of the Boar
6 Year of the Tiger
7 Year of the Snake
8 Year of the Sheep
9 Year of the Rooster
10 Year of the Dragon
11 Enjoy Your Rabbit
12 Year of the Dog
13 Year of the Horse
14 Year of Our Lord