Enjoy Your Rabbit

Sufjan Stevens

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Enjoy Your Rabbit Review

by Jason Nickey

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. Enjoy Your Rabbit never gets too serious, although at times it's very intense. Many tracks even have some sort of musical pun working just under the surface; for instance, "Year of the Horse" is by far the longest, clocking in at over 13 minutes, and "Year of the Ox" has a regular, heavy thudding beat.

Track Listing

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Year of the Asthmatic Cat Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	00:24	Spotify Amazon
2	Year of the Monkey Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	04:20	Spotify Amazon
3	Year of the Rat Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	08:22	Spotify Amazon
4	Year of the Ox Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	04:01	Spotify Amazon
5	Year of the Boar Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	03:55	Spotify Amazon
6	Year of the Tiger Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	04:24	Spotify Amazon
7	Year of the Snake Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	06:47	Spotify Amazon
8	Year of the Sheep Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	03:34	Spotify Amazon
9	Year of the Rooster Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	06:24	Spotify Amazon
10	Year of the Dragon Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	09:26	Spotify Amazon
11	Enjoy Your Rabbit Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	04:47	Spotify Amazon
12	Year of the Dog Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	04:52	Spotify Amazon
13	Year of the Horse Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	13:18	Spotify Amazon
14	Year of Our Lord Sufjan Stevens	Sufjan Stevens	04:30	Spotify Amazon